Premium
USE OF A DIFFERENTIAL OBSERVING RESPONSE TO EXPAND RESTRICTED STIMULUS CONTROL
Author(s) -
Walpole Carrie Wallace,
Roscoe Eileen M.,
Dube William V.
Publication year - 2007
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.2007.707-712
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus control , autism , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , medicine , nicotine
This study extends previous work on the use of differential observing responses (DOR) to remediate atypically restricted stimulus control. A participant with autism had high matching‐to‐sample accuracy scores with printed words that had no letters in common (e.g., cat, lid, bug ) but poor accuracy with words that had two letters in common (e.g., cat, can, car) . In the DOR intervention, she matched the distinguishing letters of the overlapping words (e.g., t, n, r ) immediately prior to matching the whole words. Accuracy scores improved, and accuracy remained high when DOR requirements were withdrawn.