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Feng, Hua; Chou, Wan-Chi; Lee, Gabrielle T. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2017
This study investigated the effects of tact prompts on the acquisition and retention of divergent intraverbal responding to categorical questions involving conditional discriminations. A 6-year-old boy with autism participated in the study. A multiple probe design across behaviors was used. A tact-prompt procedure was implemented. The results…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Stimuli, Responses
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Reed, Phil; Savile, Amy; Truzoli, Roberto – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Stimulus over-selectivity is a phenomenon often displayed by individuals with many forms of developmental and intellectual disabilities, and also by individuals lacking such disabilities who are under cognitive strain. It occurs when only one of potentially many aspects of the environment controls behavior. Adult participants were trained and…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Discrimination Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Thomson, Kendra M.; Czarnecki, Diana; Martin, Toby L.; Yu, C. T.; Martin, Garry L. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2007
The single-stimulus (SS) preference assessment procedure has been described as more appropriate than the paired stimulus (PS) procedure for "lower functioning" individuals, but this guideline's vagueness limits its usefulness. We administered the SS and PS preference assessment procedures with food items to seven individuals with severe…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Stimuli, Severe Mental Retardation, Discrimination Learning
Stoddard, Lawrence T., Ed. – Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1986
Ten author-contributed papers present information on stimulus control research and developmental disabilities. Articles address such isues as the role of naming, development of stimulus classes, control by exclusion, and comparison of trial-and-error and graduated stimulus change procedures. (CL)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Methodology
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Maydak, Michael; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This study examined the matching and sequencing of quantities, numerals, and arbitrary forms by two individuals with mental retardation. Results showed that sequence training did not readily lead to new matching performances, unlike prior research with college students. Instead, training in matching to sample yielded emergent sequence production…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Disabilities