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Vie, Aleksander; Arntzen, Erik – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
The primary focus of the present experiment was to study participants' self-talk during conditional discrimination training and test for the emergence of conditional relations consistent with equivalence. Eighteen adult participants were exposed to either a Many-to-One (MTO) or a One-to-Many (OTM) training structure arranged as a 6-s delayed…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Training Methods, Adults, Verbal Operant Conditioning
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Greer, R. Douglas; Pistoljevic, Nirvana; Cahill, Claire; Du, Lin – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2011
We used a delayed non-concurrent pre- and post-intervention probe design to test the effects of a voice conditioning protocol (VCP) with 3 preschoolers with autism on (a) rate of acquisition of listener curricular objectives, (b) observing voices and the presence of adults across 3 settings, (c) selecting to listen to adults tell stories in free…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adults, Behavior Problems, Story Telling
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Bayer, Ulrike; Erdmann, Gisela – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Studies investigating changes in functional cerebral asymmetries (FCAs) with hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle in young women have led to controversial hypotheses about an influence of estrogen (E) and/or progesterone (P) on FCAs. Based on methodical, but also on principal problems in deriving conclusions about hormone effects from…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Verbal Stimuli, Females
FRASE, LAWRENCE T.
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE HOW ADULTS ADAPT TO DIFFERENT PASSAGE ORGANIZATIONS AND STIMULI WHICH PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN GOVERNING READING BEHAVIOR. A MODEL OF READING IS DESCRIBED WHICH STATES THAT SUBJECTS ENTER A MINIMAL SET OF STIMULI INTO MEMORY WHICH GOVERNS SUBSEQUENT FEEDBACK CONTROL, AND THAT SUBJECTS ALLOW PASSAGE ORGANIZATION TO…
Descriptors: Adults, Models, Organization, Reading Processes
Khatena, Joe – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Creative Development, Creative Expression
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Sigafoos, Jeff; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989
A study of the acquisition of mands (requests) and tacts (labels) relating to food and eating utensils in three individuals with severe mental retardation revealed that responses acquired as tacts did not readily occur as mands, but spontaneous manding was developed through a stimulus control transfer procedure. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adults, Conditioning, Generalization, Language Skills
Wallace, Michele D.; Iwata, Brian A.; Hanley, Gregory P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
We examined some conditions under which a response acquired as a tact might facilitate the establishment of a mand. We taught 3 participants with developmental disabilities to tact the items ranked highest and lowest in a preference assessment and subsequently tested to see if the responses occurred as mands. All participants manded for the highly…
Descriptors: Needs, Responses, Developmental Disabilities, Verbal Communication