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This chapter reviews basic research on choice from both the experimental analysis of behavior and cognitive sciences literature. Choice is a ubiquitous component in any organism’s behavior stream, necessitating a proper understanding of the variables governing choice to fully account for the universe of responding in a science of behavior. We provide only tentative discussions for translating basic findings to service delivery and place our comments within the boundaries and appropriate limitations of the extant literature. In general, this chapter reviews basic theories and models of choice, providing a general framework for the clinical applications that are discussed in Chap. 7.
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Note that matching can be obtained on ratio schedules if they are programmed as interdependent random ratio (RR) schedules, wherein responding on one alternative impacts the availability at others (see Rothstein et al. 2008 for an example). We posit that real-world choices are likely most similar to interdependent RR schedules, rather than VI schedules.
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Reed, D., Tiger, J. (2015). Basic Choice Research. In: DiGennaro Reed, F., Reed, D. (eds) Autism Service Delivery. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2656-5_6
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