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Bekker, Marthinus J.; Cumming, Tania D.; Osborne, Nikola K. P.; Bruining, Angela M.; McClean, Julia I.; Leland, Louis S., Jr. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2010
This experiment investigated the combined use of visual prompts, daily feedback, and rewards to reduce electricity consumption in a university residential hall. After a 17-day baseline period, the experimental intervention was introduced in the intervention hall, and no change was made in the control hall. Energy usage decreased in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dormitories, Energy Management, Cues
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Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg; Haflidadottir, Rakel Dogg – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
We compared the effects of tact training, listener training, and two types of intraverbal training on 2 children's acquisition of foreign-language tact, listener, and intraverbal relations. The children received all four types of training simultaneously with different stimulus sets. Native-foreign intraverbal training presented the greatest…
Descriptors: Classification, Second Language Instruction, Stimuli, Foreign Countries
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Hoon, Alice; Dymond, Simon; Jackson, James W.; Dixon, Mark R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
Participants were trained and tested to select stimuli of differing physical quantities in the presence of 2 color contextual cues for more than and less than. Following more than and less than relational training, participants allocated the majority of their responses to the slot machine that shared formal properties of color with the contextual…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Probability, Experiments
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Petursdottir, Anna Ingeborg; Olafsdottir, Alma Run; Aradottir, Berglind – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
We evaluated the effects of 2 types of training on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations with 4 typically developing children. Tact training involved reinforcing foreign-language vocalizations in the presence of visual stimuli, and listener training involved reinforcing selections of visual stimuli following vocal presentations of…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Verbal Stimuli