The Effect of a Mediation-Blocking Task on the Acquisition of Instructive Feedback Targets

Dressel, Amelia; Nicholson, Katie; Albert, Kristin M.; Ryan, Victoria

doi:10.1007/s40616-019-00119-9

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“…The occurrence of echoic responses at the covert level when they were not required may explain the negative results of previous studies that have evaluated echoic response requirements (e.g., Petursdottir et al, 2014), and interfering with that behavior could potentially reveal an effect. A recent study (Dressel, Nicholson, Albert, & Ryan, 2019) found that blocking echoic responses during stimulus pairing did not interfere with emergent intraverbal control in an instructive feedback procedure; however, no similar research has been published on emergent tact control. Second, researchers might explore the possibility that the echoic plays a role in emergent tact control only in the early stages of verbal development and that it can no longer be detected in children of preschool age whose development follows a typical pattern (e.g., participants in the present study).…”

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Emergent Tact Control Following Stimulus Pairing: Comparison of Procedural Variations

Pétursdóttir

Neaves

Thomas

2020

Analysis Verbal Behav

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We examined emergent tact control following stimulus pairing, using 2 different stimulus presentation arrangements. In the word-first condition, presentation of the auditory stimulus preceded the visual stimulus, and in the image-first condition, the visual stimulus preceded the auditory stimulus. Eight children (2-5 years old) participated. In Experiment 1, 4 children were exposed to 3 sessions in each condition with a new set of stimuli in each session. In Experiment 2, 2 of the same children received repeated exposure to the same stimulus sets. Experiment 3, with new participants, was identical to Experiment 1, except visual and auditory stimuli overlapped during the presentation. Postsession probes documented emergent stimulus control over 1 or more vocal responses for 7 of the 8 participants. Participants were more likely to make echoic responses with the visual stimulus present in the word-first condition; however, emergent tact control was unaffected by the order of the stimulus presentation. Additional research is needed on stimulus-pairing procedures and on the role of echoic responding in emergent tact control.Keywords Children . Naming . Stimulus pairing . Tact . Verbal behavior The "tact" was defined by Skinner (1957) as a verbal operant in which the response form is controlled by "a particular object or event or a property of the object or event" (pp. 81-82). Although Skinner considered operant reinforcement to be primarily responsible for establishing the stimulus control that defines the tact (hereafter referred to as "tact control"), he also acknowledged (Skinner, 1957, pp. 359-360) that this type of stimulus control sometimes emerges without any apparent reinforcement of the target response form in the presence of the relevant stimulus. More recent behavioranalytic theories have hypothesized that emergent tact control is a product of a higher order (Horne & Lowe, 1996) or a generalized (e.g.,

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Emergent Tact Control Following Stimulus Pairing: Comparison of Procedural Variations

Pétursdóttir

Neaves

Thomas

2020

Analysis Verbal Behav

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“…The participants in Frampton and Shillingsburg ( 2020 ) did not emit overt echoic responses during the IF intervention, and the authors suggested that covert echoics and self-echoics could have occurred given the participants’ repertoires (p. 10). Recent research suggested that a verbal-mediation blocking procedure did not prevent acquisition of secondary targets (Dressel et al, 2019 ). The role of covert or overt echoics and self-echoics in the acquisition of IF is not well understood, and future research should continue to investigate the repertoires that lead to the acquisition of secondary targets and emergent responses following IF.…”

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confidence: 99%