Edible and leisure items are often used in behavioral intervention to teach skills or reduce problem behavior. Social interactions, however, have also been shown to function as reinforcers for both typically developing children and children diagnosed with autism. Previous research has been conducted investigating preference displacement between edible, leisure and social items. The current study included edible stimuli and social interactions to evaluate whether patterns of displacement would appear with typically developing children. Multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessments were conducted to identify highly preferred stimuli from both edible item and social interaction classes to use in combined assessments to evaluate displacement. Three of six participants showed complete displacement of social interactions by edible items and three participants showed patterns of partial displacement. Two of the participants demonstrating patterns of partial displacement showed a disproportionate preference for social interactions.

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评估典型发育的学龄前儿童对食物刺激和社会互动的偏好位移

食用和休闲物品通常用于行为干预，以教授技能或减少问题行为。然而，社交互动也被证明对正常发育的儿童和被诊断患有自闭症的儿童都有强化作用。之前的研究调查了食品、休闲和社交项目之间的偏好转移。目前的研究包括食用刺激和社交互动，以评估正常发育的儿童是否会出现流离失所的模式。进行无替代偏好评估的多重刺激，以从可食用物品和社交互动类别中识别出高度偏好的刺激，以用于组合评估以评估位移。六名参与者中的三名表现出社交互动被可食用物品完全取代，三名参与者表现出部分取代的模式。两名表现出部分流离失所模式的参与者表现出对社交互动的不成比例的偏好。