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SPELLING AND EMERGENT PICTURE‐PRINTED WORD RELATIONS ESTABLISHED WITH DELAYED IDENTITY MATCHING TO COMPLEX SAMPLES
Author(s) -
Stromer Robert,
Mackay Harry A.
Publication year - 1992
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.1992.25-893
Subject(s) - spelling , psychology , sample (material) , stimulus (psychology) , word (group theory) , matching (statistics) , communication , cognitive psychology , natural language processing , linguistics , computer science , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography
Students with academic deficits learned delayed matching‐to‐sample tasks that used complex sample stimuli, each consisting of a picture and a printed word. A touch to the sample complex removed it from the computer display and produced either picture comparisons or a choice pool of letters. If the comparisons were pictures, selecting the picture identical to the preceding sample was reinforced. If the letters appeared, letter‐by‐letter construction of the preceding printed word sample was reinforced. The procedure engendered new constructed‐response spelling performances and arbitrary relations among pictures and printed words in matching to sample. The emergence of relations among different sets of printed words (paired with the same pictures) suggested classes of equivalent stimuli. Outcome tests involving spoken words as sample stimuli suggested expansion of subjects' spelling repertoires and stimulus classes.