Exploring the Utility of Preference Assessments in Organizational Behavior Management

The present study compared two variations of stimulus preference assessments: a survey in which direct service employees ranked their preferences for a variety of items, and a multiple stimulus preference assessment without replacement (MSWO), in which textual stimuli were used to represent the actual items. Results obtained for four participants revealed identical preference hierarchies across each type of stimulus preference assessment for one participant, with three participants demonstrating variations in their preference hierarchies during the MSWO when compared with the ranking survey.