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EFFECTS OF PREFERENCE ON THE EMERGENCE OF UNTRAINED VERBAL OPERANTS
Author(s) -
Gilliam Alysia,
Weil Timothy M.,
Miltenberger Raymond G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.34
Subject(s) - tact , mand , psychology , preference , nonverbal communication , developmental psychology , autism , cognitive psychology , economics , microeconomics
The current study replicated and extended the findings of Wallace, Iwata, and Hanley (2006), who demonstrated conditions that facilitated the transfer from tact to mand relations. Students in the current study were taught to tact both high‐preference (HP) and low‐preference (LP) items and subsequently were assessed on their ability to mand for those items. The results showed the emergence of mands for HP items but not LP items following tact training.