Two subjects diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and related disabilities who engaged in hand‐clapping maintained by automatic reinforcement participated in this study. We conducted a sensory analysis to evaluate matched stimuli that functioned as an abolishing operation or extinction for different sources of sensory reinforcement. Finally, we implemented noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) using the stimuli found to compete in the assessment to reduce the target behavior, and we thinned item availability. Results showed a decrease in hand‐clapping, and hand‐clapping remained low when we thinned the schedule of reinforcement. This research further elucidates how NCR can treat problem behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement.

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开发一种通过使用感官分析，非偶然性补强和变薄自动补强来维持拍手的方法

两名被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍和相关障碍的受试者参加了由自动加固维持的拍手活动。我们进行了感觉分析，以评估匹配的刺激，这些刺激对于不同的感觉增强源起着消灭作用或消亡的作用。最后，我们使用在评估中竞争的刺激实施了非偶然性补强（NCR），以减少目标行为，并简化了物品的可用性。结果表明，拍手次数减少了，而当我们缩短加固时间表时，拍手次数仍然很低。这项研究进一步阐明了NCR如何处理由自动强化维持的问题行为。