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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"novel responses"”.
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Transfer of Mand Topographies to Tact Relations and Vice Versa in Two Vocal-Verbal Children with Autism
Skinner (1957) suggested that verbal responses learned as mands are not necessarily emitted in tact relations and vice versa. Previous empirical research has found that newly acquired mands and tacts can be functionally independent. The present study investigated 1) whether novel responses taught …
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Topographical analysis of reinforcement produced variability: Generalizations across settings and contingencies.
… when the defining features of the variable responses were topographical differences. A dog's interactions with five different objects were measured under both ANY (where any physical contact with the object would be reinforced on a fixed ratio schedule) and the VAR contingencies (where only …
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The Effects of Priming and Contingent Attention on Novel Play Episodes in a Child with Autism
… a child with autism. During baseline, numbers of novel play episodes, different play episodes, and actions occurred at low rates. Priming procedures did not produce desired change. When contingent attention was implemented, significant increases occurred in novel play episodes, different actions, …
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Matters of character
… damaging empirical critiques. The most promising responses to character skepticism, however, are not always available to virtue ethical approaches to applied ethics. In particular, I argue that virtue ethical approaches to business ethics are in need of novel responses to character skepticism or …
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The information needs of contemporary academic researchers
… information work practices,w hich involve novel responses to the new challenges posed to them, but their fundamental information needs seem to have remained by and large unaffected by the recent upheavals in the scholarly world and its information environs. Indeed, the present study …