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dc.contributor.authorStephenson, Kasey M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T19:28:50Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T19:28:50Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/32111
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Applied Behavioral Science, 2007.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study extends previous research on child compliance by describing compliance levels of 15 preschool-aged children, and then evaluating the effects and limits of antecedent and consequence-based strategies within parametric analyses. Our descriptive assessment, which was administered in a similar manner across pairs of preschoolers, showed that compliance was relatively stable for individual children, variable across children, and was positively correlated with age. The impact of six antecedent variables (proximity, position, physical contact, eye contact, vocal attention, and play interruption) was assessed on compliance with four children. The effects of three-step (vocal, model, physical) prompting were then assessed alone, in combination with the antecedent variables, and at different integrity levels for two children. Results of the experimental analyses showed that compliance gradually increased with the addition of each antecedent variable for two of the four children. Three-step prompting in combination with the six antecedent variables increased compliance to high levels for the remaining two children, and high compliance levels maintained until treatment integrity was deceased to 20% of full strength. Implications for promoting high levels of preschooler compliance in the classroom and for the continued study of preschooler compliance are discussed. Descriptors. antecedent intervention, compliance, preschoolers, three-step prompting, treatment integrity.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansasen_US
dc.rightsThis item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.en_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.titlePreschoolers’ compliance with simple instructions: A description and experimental evaluationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineApplied Behavioral Science
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
kusw.bibid5349306
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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