Abstract
Treatment integrity is the extent to which procedures are implemented as prescribed. Previous research involving computerized tasks has shown that treatment integrity errors involving consequences can delay or impede skill acquisition. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of varying levels of integrity following skill mastery for a computerized visual-visual arbitrary match-to-sample task. One hundred undergraduate college students completed 250 trials with perfect integrity followed by an additional 250 trials with consequences delivered across various levels of integrity (i.e., 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, or 100%). Participants performed in a manner related to integrity condition, with higher integrity producing more correct responses. The 20%, 40%, and 60% conditions showed deterioration in performance, while the 80% condition was not significantly different from the 100% condition.