Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Degree Granting Department
Child and Family Studies
Major Professor
Sarah Bloom, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Co-Major Professor
Andrew Samaha, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Committee Member
Kimberly Crosland, Ph.D., BCBA
Keywords
technology, delay to reinforcement, response allocation, pair-stimulus preference assessment
Abstract
Many children are exposed to excessively technology. Such use of technology may lead to health issues including obesity, attention deficits, and sleep disorders. Research has shown that parameters of reinforcement, such as quality and delay, may influence how children allocate their preferences. One way to drive preference away from high-tech toys may be to arrange delays to reinforcement following such selections and immediate reinforcement for an alternative response. In Experiment 1, four subjects who preferred high-tech leisure items over low-tech leisure items were identified through the pair-stimulus preference assessments. The results of Experiment 2 indicated that all subjects were sensitive to delay to reinforcement. When delays were implemented following selection of high-tech items, preference shifted from high-tech to low-tech leisure items at different delays.
Scholar Commons Citation
Kim, Yuram, "Effects of Delay to Reinforcement on Selections for High-tech and Low-tech Leisure Items" (2016). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6105
