Previous research has evaluated the effects of various commonly used mastery criteria on skill maintenance by directly manipulating the accuracy requirement, as well as the sessions across which these accuracy levels must be demonstrated. The current study extends this literature by including a rate dimension within the mastery criterion with a unique population. We implemented a fluency-oriented treatment package to increase intraverbal skills related to state sex laws using a multiple-baseline design across 3 target sets for 2 individuals adjudicated for illegal sexual behavior. Within this intervention package, we included 2 distinct components of a single mastery criterion: (a) accuracy (i.e., 100% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions) and (b) speed. We evaluated how each of these measurable dimensions of behavior maintained across time. Results indicate this mastery criterion produced over 80% accuracy during maintenance probes for 10 weeks across all sets for both students. However, this mastery criterion produced idiosyncratic maintenance of rates across students and sets. These results suggest that each of these dimensions of behavior does not necessarily covary and should be conceptualized as distinct clinical targets by applied behavior clinicians.

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因非法性行为被判刑的个人的流畅性和与性法相关的技能的保持

先前的研究通过直接操纵准确性要求以及必须证明这些准确性水平的会话来评估各种常用掌握标准对技能维护的影响。当前的研究通过在具有独特人群的掌握标准中包含速率维度来扩展该文献。我们实施了一个以流利为导向的治疗方案，以针对 2 名因非法性行为被裁定的个人使用跨 3 个目标集的多基线设计，以提高与州性法律相关的语言技能。在这个干预包中，我们包含了单一掌握标准的 2 个不同组成部分：(a) 准确性（即 3 个连续会话的 100% 准确性）和 (b) 速度。我们评估了这些可衡量的行为维度是如何随时间保持的。结果表明，在为期 10 周的维护探测期间，该掌握标准对两个学生的所有组产生了超过 80% 的准确率。然而，这个掌握标准产生了跨学生和集合的特殊维持率。这些结果表明，这些行为维度中的每一个都不一定共变，应用行为临床医生应将其概念化为不同的临床目标。