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TEACHING GENERATIVE USE OF SENTENCE ANSWERS TO THREE FORMS OF QUESTIONS 1
Author(s) -
Clark Hewitt B.,
Sherman James A.
Publication year - 1975
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.1975.8-321
Subject(s) - sentence , reinforcement , generalization , psychology , verb , generative grammar , disadvantaged , linguistics , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , political science , law
Three retarded and four economically disadvantaged children were taught, through modelling and reinforcement procedures, to produce complete sentences in response to three types of questions involving changes in verb inflections. To evaluate generalization of training, new but similar questions were periodically asked, answers to which were never modelled or reinforced. Modelling and reinforcement effectively taught correct sentence answers to training questions and produced new sentence answers to questions for which no specific training had been given.