Response strength and the concept of the repertoire

Palmer, David C.

doi:10.1080/15021149.2009.11434308

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“…It is unfortunate that we did not anticipate this and collect data on this behavior. Although we cannot rule out covert rehearsal (or lucky coincidence) in such cases, it seems unlikely that covert speech can occur at the same time as overt speech (Palmer, 2009), especially with very young subjects.…”

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“…The participants in the present study were always required to tact picture cards presented as the sample stimulus, and emitting this tacting response may have directly strengthened the probability of selecting the correct comparison stimulus. Response strength is the probability of the emission of a given response given specific circumstances (Skinner, 1957) and, according to Palmer (2009), is central to the task of predicting and explaining behavior. Of course, response strength, like response probability, is a construct.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Accurate Delayed Matching-to-Sample Responding without Rehearsal: An Unintentional Demonstration with Children

Ratkos

Frieder

Poling

2016

Analysis Verbal Behav

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Research on joint control has focused on mediational responses, in which simultaneous stimulus control from two sources leads to the emission of a single response, such as choosing a comparison stimulus in delayed matching-to-sample. Most recent studies of joint control examined the role of verbal mediators (i.e., rehearsal) in evoking accurate performance. They suggest that mediation is a necessity for accurate delayed matching-to-sample responding. We designed an experiment to establish covert rehearsal responses in young children. Before participants were taught such responses; however, we observed that they responded accurately at delays of 15 and 30 s without overt rehearsal. These findings suggest that in some cases, rehearsal is not necessary for accurate responding in such tasks.

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Accurate Delayed Matching-to-Sample Responding without Rehearsal: An Unintentional Demonstration with Children

Ratkos

Frieder

Poling

2016

Analysis Verbal Behav

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“…Although mands for information did occur in some AO trials, this outcome may be attributed to the relative response strength of the mand and intraverbal (Palmer, 2009). We explicitly taught intraverbal responses to AO unobservable questions prior to the evaluation and we asked participants' therapists to intersperse these questions during regular clinical programming.…”

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Teaching children with autism to mand for social information

Landa

Frampton

Shillingsburg

2020

J of App Behav Analysis

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We replicated Shillingsburg et al. (2018) by teaching children with autism to mand for social information while analyzing the variables influencing the emission of mands. We presented questions about a social partner that were known and observable (e.g., "What is Robin doing?"), known but unobservable (i.e., questions for which an intraverbal response had previously been taught, such as, "Where does Robin work?"), or unknown (e.g., "What is Robin's favorite food?"). Correct answers were reinforced across all conditions. During treatment, we prompted children to mand for information from the social partner following only unknown questions. All children acquired mands for social information and answered previously unknown questions correctly after manding for social information and 3 of 4 participants emitted mands to novel social partners, including a peer with autism.

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“…If we conceive of behavior as binary-either emitted or not, like action potentials in neurons-this argument is sound, and, I think, irrefutable. The puzzle emerges only if we accept that latent behavior lies on a continuum of response strength, as I think we must (Palmer, 2009). As Skinner put it, "A latent response with a certain probability of emission is not directly observed.…”

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confidence: 94%