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In recent years, the motivating operation (MO) concept and the terms associated with it, including “reinforcer-abolishing effect” (Laraway, Snycerski, Michael, & Poling, 2003), have been widely used in the behavior-analytic literature (Laraway, Snycerski, Olson, Becker, & Poling, in press) and elsewhere (Lotfizadeh, Edwards, & Poling, 2013). MOs are changes in the environment that alter the reinforcing effectiveness of designated classes of stimuli, such as food or water.
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Poling, A. Were Increased Closed Seclusions the Result of a Reinforcer-Abolishing Effect?. Behav Analysis Practice 6, 40–41 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391804
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