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Finn, Heather E.; Miguel, Caio F.; Ahearn, William H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
Despite Skinner's (1957) assertion that verbal operants are initially functionally independent, recent studies have suggested that in some cases the acquisition of one verbal operant (e.g., mand) gives rise to the other (e.g., tact) without explicit training. The present study aimed to evaluate the functional independence of mands and tacts during…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Scores
Parry-Cruwys, Diana E.; Neal, Carrie M.; Ahearn, William H.; Wheeler, Emily E.; Premchander, Raseeka; Loeb, Melissa B.; Dube, William V. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Substantial experimental evidence indicates that behavior reinforced on a denser schedule is more resistant to disruption than is behavior reinforced on a thinner schedule. The present experiment studied resistance to disruption in a natural educational environment. Responding during familiar activities was reinforced on a multiple…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Responses, Resistance (Psychology), Reinforcement
Doughty, Adam H.; Saunders, Kathryn J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
Two men with intellectual disabilities initially demonstrated intermediate accuracy in two-choice matching-to-sample (MTS) procedures. A printed-letter identity MTS procedure was used with 1 participant, and a spoken-to-printed-word MTS procedure was used with the other participant. Errors decreased substantially under a delayed-sample procedure,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mental Retardation, Intervals, Sample Size