Establishing Praise as a Conditioned Reinforcer: Pairing with One Versus Multiple Reinforcers | Journal Club Series

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This installment in our Journal Club Series will cover the article, “Establishing praise as a conditioned reinforcer: Pairing with one versus multiple reinforcers" authored by Dudley, Axe, Allen and Sweeney-Kerwin and published in Behavioral Interventions. CEUs are provided for reading the article, participating in an online discussion, and completing an article content quiz. Want to get a head start? Click here to go to a free copy of the article!

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Establishing praise as a conditioned reinforcer: Pairing with one versus multiple reinforcers. Praise is a portable, ubiquitous, and cheap reinforcer for behavioral interventions. However, for many clients praise does not function as a reinforcer. This study compared two strategies to establish praise as a conditioned reinforcer for five participants with autism.

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The Article

This installment in our Journal Club Series will cover the article, “Establishing praise as a conditioned reinforcer: Pairing with one versus multiple reinforcers" authored by Dudley, Axe, Allen and Sweeney-Kerwin and published in Behavioral Interventions. CEUs are provided for reading the article, participating in an online discussion, and completing an article content quiz.

Want to get a head start? Click here to go to a free copy of the article!

Learning Objectives

Objectives:

  1. Provide rationale for establishing praise as a conditioned reinforcer.
  2. List at least two evidence-based strategies for establishing praise as a conditioned reinforcer.
  3. Describe how this study was conducted.
  4. Summarize the results of this study.
  5. Identify how the results of this study should influence clinical decisions in practice.

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