REDUCTION OF OVERSELECTIVE RESPONDING AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENERALIZED RESPONSE SET ON THE BASIS OF MULTIPLE CUES UNDER MULTIPLE SCHEDULES OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT AND TIMEOUT.

Abstract:

Following acquisition of a discrimination involving a compound discriminative stimulus, developmentally delayed children often respond to only one, or to a reduced number, of the elements making up the compound when they are presented separately in stimulus control tests. In the present study, a discrimination training procedure involving multiple schedules was used to decrease the" overselective" responding of two developmentally delayed subjects. Multiple schedule contingencies were arranged for responding in the presence of single vs. multiple cues on either of two levers. Responses on one lever in the presence of a single colored circle and a single line were reinforced on a VI 1 min.: token schedule; responses on the alternate lever were on extinction. Following this training, a compound stimulus composed of the line superimposed on the colored circle was introduced. Under this three-component …

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1984

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