THE EFFECT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF A SIMILAR TOY ON COMPLIANCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO SURRENDER A TOY AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
✍ Scribed by Janelle Allison; David A. Wilder; Hwee Lan Teo; Ashley Flynn; Kristin Myers
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
- DOI
- 10.1002/bin.333
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✦ Synopsis
We evaluated the effect of the availability of a similar toy on compliance with an instruction to surrender a toy among three preschool children. First, high-preference and medium-preference toys were identified for each participant. During the treatment evaluation, reversal designs were used to examine compliance with an instruction to surrender these toys when a toy similar to the target toy was added to the environment. The results indicated that, for two participants, the similar toy intervention increased compliance to moderate levels; a consequence-based intervention was then added to the similar toy intervention and resulted in high levels of compliance. For the third participant, the similar toy intervention did not increase compliance. A separate consequence-based intervention was necessary to increase compliance and to demonstrate experimental control.