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ACQUISITION AND CROSS‐SETTING GENERALIZATION OF MANUAL SIGNS WITH SEVERELY RETARDED INDIVIDUALS
Author(s) -
Duker Pieter C.,
Morsink Herman
Publication year - 1984
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.1984.17-93
Subject(s) - generalization , psychology , multiple baseline design , stimulus control , stimulus generalization , stimulus (psychology) , vital signs , developmental psychology , signs and symptoms , dreyfus model of skill acquisition , audiology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , medicine , neuroscience , perception , intervention (counseling) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , surgery , economic growth , economics , nicotine
In this study, we assessed the effect of a transfer of stimulus control procedure on the acquisition and cross‐setting generalization of manual signs with four profoundly retarded individuals. Two individuals were trained to produce appropriate signs to verbal instructions, whereas the other two were trained until manual signs were controlled by visual stimuli (objects). Data obtained from three probe situations (two for one individual) constituted the dependent variables of the investigation. The results, gathered within a multiple‐baseline design across signs showed that (a) individuals acquired the trained signs and (b) maintenance and generalization across settings (classroom, ward) and persons (teachers, ward staff) occurred, but was highly variable between and within individuals.