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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Verbal Operants"”.
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The Acquisition of Mand and Tact Responses
… A technology for investigation of elementary verbal operants is presented.
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The Effects of the Acquisition of Conditioned Reinforcement for Adult Faces and/or Voices on the Rate of Learning and Attention to the Presence of Adults . . .
… and listener programs, observing responses, and verbal operants emitted by the participants across three settings. In Experiment 1, the results showed Participant A's rate of learning accelerated after the first intervention and decreased after the second intervention. Participant A's attention …
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The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals
… the acquisition of tacts (Experiment 1) and intraverbals (Experiment 2) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. There were 3 conditions in each experiment. In the first 2 conditions, the experimenter first exposed the participants to a 15-min interval of either presession attention (PA) or no …
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Effects of Social Reinforcement Versus Tokens on the Spontaneous Speech of Preschoolers
… reinforcement contingencies on the emission of verbal operants by preschoolers. Six participants, 3 females and 3 males, 3- to 4-years old, were selected to participate in Experiment I. Six participants, 5 females and 1 male, 2- to 4-years-old, were selected for Experiment II. In Experiment I, …
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Emergence of vocalization in non vocal children with a diagnosis of autism: building an evidence base for interventions
… Experiment 3 studied the additive effect of intraverbal training with paired auditory stimulus on 46 children who failed to acquire vocals after 12-40 weeks of sign-mand training and SSP. Results showed 80% children emerged with vocals after the introduction of intraverbal training. In Experiment …
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The Induction of Emergent Relations in Children with Severe Cognitive and Language Delays
… both bi-directional/symmetrical relations and verbal operants are necessary for derived relations.
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An Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of PEAK Relational Training System: An Effective Behavioral Intervention for Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities
… order learning from Skinner's (1957) analysis of verbal behavior. The results suggest that this assessment and training protocol has significant potential in efficiently training students with and without disabilities. Implications of these finding are discussed in terms of future progress of …