Stimulus Equivalence To Teach Tacting

When the child echoes cookie you could say right it s a cookie and reinforce with chips or something else for which there s an mo.

Stimulus equivalence to teach tacting. To teach a tact you would choose a stimulus for which there is no or a weak mo and give the echoic cookie after he s had his fill. Stimulus equivalence exists when a learner correctly identifies a symbolic relationship between two or more non identical stimuli without specific training on that relationship. Following instruction using a stimulus equivalence procedure to teach matching of dictated picture names with printed words two preschool children were also.

Stimulus equivalence based instruction stimulus equivalence instructional sequence sei. Used the stimulus equivalence paradigm to teach adults who were deaf and mentally retarded to establish equivalence relations among pictures of facial expressions printed emotion words and signs in sign language. An approach for teaching beginning reading skills to young children.

In other words the learner makes untrained but accurate connections between stimuli. Two of the four participants in their study showed the formation of. When adding a new item to a stimulus equivalence class the new item must be conditioned to at least one stimulus in the equivalence class.

Teaching a behavior in the presence of a stimulus that is a member of a stimulus class should generalize over to the other members in the stimulus class.