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Optimizing Dimensions of Reinforcement

NCT07137273 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2025-08-27

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Intellectual Disabilities (F70-F79)
  • Autism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Operant Conditioning Tasks with Reinforcement Manipulations

This 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Oakland University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Auburn University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John M Falligant, PhD · Auburn University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-10-07
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2026-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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