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PRODUCING GENERALIZED JOB INITIATIVE IN SEVERELY MENTALLY RETARDED SHELTERED WORKERS
Author(s) -
McCuller Glen L.,
Salzberg Charles L.,
LignugarisKraft Benjamin
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.20-413
Subject(s) - psychology , mentally retarded , set (abstract data type) , applied psychology , on the job training , psychological intervention , job analysis , job training , supported employment , training (meteorology) , job performance , medical education , developmental psychology , social psychology , vocational education , pedagogy , work (physics) , job satisfaction , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , mechanical engineering , physics , internship , meteorology , engineering , programming language
The development of generalized job initiative was examined with three severely retarded men working in an industrial assembly area of a sheltered workshop. Interventions included discrimination training, role‐play training, and self‐monitoring. For each participant, training was applied sequentially to three sets of job initiative behaviors. Intensive training was required to establish the first set of job initiative behaviors; however, the second and third sets of job initiative behaviors were learned with only discrimination training. The discussion summarizes the findings and suggests research needed to develop more powerful learning‐to‐learn paradigms.