Display Settings:

Format

Send to:

Choose Destination
    J Appl Behav Anal. 1992 Winter;25(4):893-904.

    Spelling and emergent picture-printed word relations established with delayed identity matching to complex samples.

    Source

    Behavioral Sciences Division, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254.

    Abstract

    Students with academic deficits learned delayed matching-to-sample tasks that used complex sample stimuli, each consisting of a picture and a printed word. A touch to the sample complex removed it from the computer display and produced either picture comparisons or a choice pool of letters. If the comparisons were pictures, selecting the picture identical to the preceding sample was reinforced. If the letters appeared, letter-by-letter construction of the preceding printed word sample was reinforced. The procedure engendered new constructed-response spelling performances and arbitrary relations among pictures and printed words in matching to sample. The emergence of relations among different sets of printed words (paired with the same pictures) suggested classes of equivalent stimuli. Outcome tests involving spoken words as sample stimuli suggested expansion of subjects' spelling repertoires and stimulus classes.

    PMID:
    1478912
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC1279774
    Free PMC Article

      Supplemental Content

      Icon for PubMed Central

      Save items

      loading

      Recent activity

      Your browsing activity is empty.

      Activity recording is turned off.

      Turn recording back on

      See more...
      Write to the Help Desk