Competing stimulus assessments (CSAs) are used to empirically identify stimuli associated with low levels of problem behavior. For some individuals with automatically maintained behavior, it can be difficult to identify effective competing stimuli. Recent research shows that prompting engagement and response blocking can be employed during the CSA to obtain significant reductions in problem behavior. The purpose of the present study was to replicate and extend prior research on the use of these tactics not only with competing stimuli, but also competing tasks, which require the active completion of a discrete response or response sequence. In addition, the current study validated the results of these pretreatment assessments in an extended treatment analysis, and examined the isolated and combined effects of prompting and response blocking within a component analysis. Future research directions and implications for clinical practice are discussed.

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通过竞争性刺激和任务减少运动刻板印象：提示参与和反应阻滞分析

竞争刺激评估 (CSA) 用于凭经验识别与低水平问题行为相关的刺激。对于一些具有自动维持行为的人来说，很难识别有效的竞争刺激。最近的研究表明，在 CSA 期间可以使用促进参与和响应阻止来显着减少问题行为。本研究的目的是复制和扩展先前对这些策略的使用的研究，这些策略不仅适用于竞争性刺激，而且还有竞争性任务，这需要主动完成离散响应或响应序列。此外，目前的研究在扩展治疗分析中验证了这些预处理评估的结果，并检查了成分分析中提示和响应阻止的孤立和组合效应。讨论了未来的研究方向和对临床实践的影响。