AN EVALUATION OF THE HIGH-PROBABILITY INSTRUCTION SEQUENCE WITH AND WITHOUT PROGRAMMED REINFORCEMENT FOR COMPLIANCE WITH HIGH-PROBABILITY INSTRUCTIONS.

We assessed the effects of reinforcement and no reinforcement for compliance to high- probability (high-p) instructions on compliance to low-probability (low-p) instructions using a reversal design. For both participants, compliance with the low-p instruction increased only when compliance with high-p instructions was followed by reinforcement. These results suggest that providing reinforcement for high-p instructions may result in increased compliance to low-p instructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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