Author Question: Ms. Pillar wants to teach Thurston to remain on task. However, she wants Thurston to remain on task ... (Read 97 times)

itsmyluck · **on:** Jul 31, 2018

Ms. Pillar wants to teach Thurston to remain on task. However, she wants Thurston to remain on task during a variety of activities. Therefore, Ms. Pillar uses various materials during training such as staying on task doing paper work and at the table doing art work. What principle of generalization programming is she employing?

a. use of sufficient response exemplars
b. use of indiscriminable contingencies
c. reinforcing unprompted generalizations
d. use of sufficient stimulus exemplars

Question 2

Little Ebenezer just can't seem to perform the skill of joining in a conversation with his peer group. Every time he walks up to a group of kids they start laughing at him. What recommendation would you make to the practitioner who is trying to promote generalization of this skill?

a. provide Ebenezer with more reinforcement as a means to increase his incentive to perform the behaviors
b. directly reinforce the peers' behaviors associated with the target skills
c. teach Ebenezer to exhibit the skill in front of adults who are more understanding than peers
d. select less complicated skills to teach Ebenezer