Optimizing Dimensions of Reinforcement
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age6-17
SponsorAuburn University
About this trial
This study is designed to better understand how certain features of reinforcement affect learning and motivation in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Participants will take part in a series of structured teaching sessions that involve simple tasks and reward-based feedback. By changing the timing and amount of rewards, we aim to learn how these factors influence the ability to acquire and maintain new skills. This information may help improve behavioral interventions for individuals with IDD in the future. The study does not involve medications or procedures intended to change participants' health status.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Operant Conditioning Tasks with Reinforcement Manipulations
BehavioralThis behavioral intervention involves structured operant conditioning tasks. Reinforcement parameters (e.g., schedule arrangement, magnitude, and probability) are systematically manipulated to evaluate their effects on behavioral allocation. The primary objective is to assess how variations in reinforcement contingencies influence choice patterns. The procedures are designed to examine fundamental behavioral processes rather than to provide therapeutic benefit.
Treatment groups
30 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Single-Arm: Manipulation of Reinforcement SchedulesExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Change in rate of behavior across schedules
Number of target responses allocated emitted during experimental sessions in which reinforcement parameters (e.g., schedule arrangement, magnitude, and probability) are systematically varied. This measure will be derived from response data recorded during operant conditioning tasks. Changes in allocation patterns will be compared across schedule conditions to assess the effect of reinforcement manipulations.
Time frame
3 monthsSponsors and contacts
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Auburn University
Lead sponsor
Oakland University
Collaborator
Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov