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PROGRAMMING THE GENERALIZATION OF A GREETING RESPONSE IN FOUR RETARDED CHILDREN 1
Author(s) -
Stokes Trevor F.,
Baer Donald M.,
Jackson Robert L.
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.1974.7-599
Subject(s) - generalization , psychology , reinforcement , multiple baseline design , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , mathematics , intervention (counseling)
Reinforcement techniques of prompting and shaping were employed to develop hand‐waving, a useful social greeting response, in four institutionalized retarded subjects. A multiple‐baseline design across subjects demonstrated the reliable functioning of the training procedures. Specifically, it showed that training and maintenance of the greeting response by one experimenter was not usually sufficient for generalization of the response to the more than 20 other members of the institution staff who had not participated in the training of the response. However, high levels of generalization to staff members were recorded for three subjects over periods ranging from one to six months after a second experimenter trained and maintained the response in conjunction with the first experimenter. The fourth subject, although never receiving training by a second experimenter, showed similar results following a second training by the first experimenter.