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@article{citeulike:436398, abstract = {Social skills priming was used to increase the spontaneous social initiations of 2 socially withdrawn preschoolers, 1 of whom had been diagnosed with autism. During priming sessions, the teacher prompted and reinforced social behaviors (e.g., smiling, verbal initiations). We varied the rate of reinforcement during priming sessions and measured the effects of this manipulation on the rate of spontaneous social initiations during the subsequent classroom activity. Spontaneous initiations were more frequent after high rates of reinforcement than after low rates of reinforcement.}, address = {Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA.}, author = {Zanolli, K. and Daggett, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {436398}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9532755}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=9532755}, issn = {0021-8855}, journal = {J Appl Behav Anal}, keywords = {developmental\_disabilities, hardcopy, pdfcopy, priming, reinforcement, smiling}, number = {1}, pages = {117--125}, posted-at = {2005-12-12 23:21:42}, priority = {2}, title = {The effects of reinforcement rate on the spontaneous social initiations of socially withdrawn preschoolers.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9532755}, volume = {31}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:436398 L3 - citeulike-article-id:436398 N2 - Social skills priming was used to increase the spontaneous social initiations of 2 socially withdrawn preschoolers, 1 of whom had been diagnosed with autism. During priming sessions, the teacher prompted and reinforced social behaviors (e.g., smiling, verbal initiations). We varied the rate of reinforcement during priming sessions and measured the effects of this manipulation on the rate of spontaneous social initiations during the subsequent classroom activity. Spontaneous initiations were more frequent after high rates of reinforcement than after low rates of reinforcement. IS - 1 JF - J Appl Behav Anal SN - 0021-8855 AD - Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA. EP - 125 TI - The effects of reinforcement rate on the spontaneous social initiations of socially withdrawn preschoolers. VL - 31 SP - 117 KW - developmental_disabilities KW - hardcopy KW - pdfcopy KW - priming KW - reinforcement KW - smiling AU - Zanolli, K AU - Daggett, J PY - 1998/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9532755 ER -