Concurrent-chains preference assessments have been used to assess preferences for leisure activities, teaching strategies, behavioral interventions, and other protracted events. This assessment model involves presenting an array of representative stimuli (e.g., pictures or colored cards), providing participants with an opportunity to select a representative stimulus from the array, arranging access to the associated activity, and then rank-ordering activities based upon their accumulated selection frequency across trials. The predominant model for presenting stimuli has been one in which all stimuli are presented in arrays simultaneously (i.e., a multiple-stimulus model). Activities selected repeatedly are identified as highly preferred and are then sequentially removed from the array to determine a preference hierarchy. The current study compared this approach with an alternative in which representative stimuli were presented to participants in paired arrays. Assessments conducted in the paired-array format were completed more rapidly than the multiple-stimulus format with a high degree of correspondence between preference rankings generated by both approaches.

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比较成对刺激和多刺激并发链偏好评估：一致性、对应性和效率

并发链偏好评估已被用于评估对休闲活动、教学策略、行为干预和其他长期事件的偏好。该评估模型包括呈现一系列代表性刺激（例如，图片或彩色卡片），为参与者提供从阵列中选择代表性刺激的机会，安排对相关活动的访问，然后根据他们累积的活动对活动进行排序试验中的选择频率。用于呈现刺激的主要模型是一种所有刺激同时呈现在阵列中的模型（即多刺激模型）。重复选择的活动被标识为高度首选，然后从数组中依次删除以确定首选层次结构。当前的研究将这种方法与另一种方法进行了比较，在这种方法中，以成对阵列的形式向参与者呈现有代表性的刺激。以配对阵列格式进行的评估比多刺激格式完成得更快，两种方法生成的偏好排名之间高度对应。