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THE APPLICATION OF GENERALIZED CORRECT SOCIAL CONTINGENCIES: AN EVALUATION OF A TRAINING PROGRAM 1
Author(s) -
Parsonson Barry S.,
Baer Ann M.,
Baer Donald M.
Publication year - 1974
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 - 10.1901/jaba.1974.7-427
Subject(s) - multiple baseline design , psychology , baseline (sea) , developmental psychology , mentally retarded , clinical psychology , training (meteorology) , generalization , observer (physics) , psychiatry , intervention (counseling) , oceanography , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , meteorology , geology , mathematical analysis
Two aides operating a kindergarten‐style program for institutionalized mental retardates were trained, using observer feedback, to apply generalized “correct” social contingencies to 10 defined classes of appropriate and inappropriate child behaviors. A multiple baseline design was used to demonstrate, sequentially, the effects of the training procedure upon the attending behavior of each teacher. After withdrawal of feedback, a posttraining follow‐up served to assess the durability of training. For both aides, the effect of training was to increase the proportion of appropriate child behaviors attended to, compared with baseline data, and a follow‐up over a number of weeks indicated that the effects of training were apparently durable.