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Peer reviewedHalle, James W.; Holt, Bonnie – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
Four young adults with moderate mental retardation were taught to include "please" as part of requests, and four environmental stimuli present during training were assessed. Results indicated that presence of a single stimulus or pair of stimuli increased the probability of the "please" response, whereas presence of other…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Generalization, Moderate Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedShepard, Roger N. – Science, 1987
Describes the establishment of a psychological space for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli with the probability that a response learned for a stimulus will generalize to the other. (Author/TW)
Descriptors: College Science, Conditioning, Generalization, Higher Education
Peer reviewedOppenheimer, Moshe; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
Two experiments to replicate P. E. Touchette's findings on the delayed prompt effect, with 34 subjects having mental retardation, found more variable results, with all five of the possible outcomes occurring with some subjects. The paper concludes that successful use of the delayed prompt technique depends on such factors as difficulty of target…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Behavior Modification
