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Generalized imitation and the discrimination hypothesis
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This paper found that children consistently imitate non-reinforced responses when no reinforced alternative was available, but they reliably imitate reinforced responses when it was presented in a choice procedure, while S s immediately stopped imitating nonreinforcing responses when simply instructed to stop, and that the generalized imitation effect is largely a function of instructional and other social variables operating within typical generalized imitation procedures.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive imitation & Imitation.read more
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Relative efficacy of modeling, shaping, and the combined procedures for modification of social withdrawal.
TL;DR: Social isolates were selected from four nursery school populations according to teacher ratings and behavioral samples obtained by trained Os, and modeling was shown to be a more rapid modification procedure than was shaping, and the interaction levels produced through modeling were more stable over tune.
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An analysis of observational learning in autistic and normal children.
TL;DR: The results showed that the majority of the autistic and the youngest normal children acquired only some limited features of the observational situation and chronological age was related to the amount of learning through observation in the normal children but not in the autistics.
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Generalized imitation and response-class formation in children with autism.
TL;DR: This study, the first to analyze imitative response classes in children with autism, showed that imitation generalized from reinforced training models to nonreinforced probe models within a response type, but it did not generalize across response types.
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Stimulus control in the classroom as a function of the behavior reinforced.
Marholin D nd,Steinman Wm +1 more
TL;DR: By providing contingencies for the products of a child's classroom activities, rather than for being on task, the child will become more independent of the teacher's presence, and more under the control of the academic materials.
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Principles of behavior modification
TL;DR: In psychotherapy, the subject matter is the person's behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is the only class of events that can be altered through psychological procedures, and therefore it is a meaningful subject matter of psychotherapy.
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The development of imitation by reinforcing behavioral similarity to a model
TL;DR: Some of the conditions under which retarded children can be taught to imitate the actions of adults are demonstrated and initial verbal repertoires in two subjects are established.
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Acquisition of Imitative Speech by Schizophrenic Children
TL;DR: It was found that reward delivered contingent upon imitation was necessary for development of imitation and the newly established imitation was shown to have acquired rewarding properties for the children.
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Reinforcement control of generalized imitation in young children
Donald M. Baer,James A. Sherman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three imitative responses (head nodding, mouthing, and strange verbalizations) were established in young children by social reinforcement from a puppet and two additional procedures were applied to demonstrate further the dependence of imitative bar-pressing upon the reinforcement following the other imitative behaviors.
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