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For example if a child calls her dad who has a beard daddy and then also calls all men who have a beard daddy she has not successfully discriminated the visual stimulus of her dad with a beard from other men.

Stimulus and response generalization aba. Response generalization refers to learning a skill and then demonstrating a variation of it in similar situations. For example imagine that a dog has been conditioned to run to its owner when it hears a whistle. When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimuli.

Stimulus generalization also includes identifying objects as equivalent with one another. Stimulus generalization occurs when an organism responds to a stimulus in the same way that it responds to a similar stimulus. She noted that stimulus generalization occurs when a response is occasioned by stimuli that weren t explicitly used in training.

This occurs during the classical conditioning process. Behavior that can occur in a variety of ways for example making complex requests or drawing different kinds of faces. Applied behavior analysis cooper heron heward.

Is a graphical display of the extent to which responding occurs in the presence of stimuli that are by degrees similar or dissimilar to the trained discriminative stimulus. Stimulus generalization refers to the inability to discriminate between different stimulus. Behavior that occurs in response to different stimuli for example saying car when shown different pictures and objects representing different kinds of cars.

For example behavior reinforced in the presence of red may occur at a lower rate in response to orange and yellow and an even lower rate in. Stimulus and response generalization stimulus generalization when a response is reinforced in the presence of one stimulus there is a general tendency to respond in the presence of new stimuli that have similar physical properties or have been associated with the stimulus. For example knowing the word cat can apply to a variety of different looking cats like siamese maine coon etc.

In a recent video may beabrun a board certified behavior analyst bcba at brett dinovi and associates provided an introduction to generalization and teaching tips focused on child learners.