Jessica S Akers, Billie J Retzlaff, Wayne W Fisher, Brian D Greer, Ami J Kaminski, Andresa A DeSouza
{"title":"An Evaluation of Conditional Manding Using a Four-Component Multiple Schedule.","authors":"Jessica S Akers, Billie J Retzlaff, Wayne W Fisher, Brian D Greer, Ami J Kaminski, Andresa A DeSouza","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0099-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-018-0099-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most verbal behavior curricula for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) focus on teaching multiple mands during the early stages of training (e.g., picture exchange communication system; Bondy & Frost, 1994). However, few, if any, of those curricula train children with ASD to differentially mand only for reinforcers that are reasonable for a caregiver to deliver in a given context (e.g., mands to cuddle at bedtime) and to refrain from manding for reinforcers that would be inappropriate to deliver in that context (e.g., mands to play outside at bedtime). In this study, we first taught a boy with ASD two initial mands. Immediately thereafter we brought those mands under the conditional discriminative control of a four-component multiple schedule with (a) S<sup>1</sup> correlated with one reinforcer available (i.e., edibles), (b) S<sup>2</sup> correlated with both reinforcers available (i.e., edibles or drink), (c) S<sup>3</sup> correlated with another reinforcer available (i.e., drink), and (d) S<sup>Δ</sup> correlated with no reinforcer available. Following treatment, the child displayed conditionally discriminated manding in accordance with each of the four components of the schedule. We discuss these findings relative to the potential benefits of bringing mands under both evocative and discriminative control.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"94-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0099-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examination of the Effects of Auditory and Textual Stimuli on Response Accuracy and Latency during a Math Task and Tangram Puzzle.","authors":"Tiffany Kodak, Samantha Bergmann, Brittany LeBlanc, Michael J Harman, Maryam Ayazi","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0098-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-018-0098-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although Skinner (1957) provided a behavioral account of verbal thinking, additional research is needed to evaluate stimuli that may influence covert verbal behavior that occurs between the onset of a verbal stimulus and the emission of a response during an episode of verbal thinking. The present investigation examined the effects of auditory distractors and/or textual stimuli during arithmetic problems and tangram puzzles on the participants' response latency and accuracy. In addition, we measured and categorized occurrences of vocal verbal behavior during the response interval. In Experiments 1 and 2, the experimenter played auditory distractors during a proportion of arithmetic problems. In Experiment 2, the experimenter also presented a textual stimulus of the arithmetic problem. In Experiment 3, the experimenter played auditory distractors during a proportion of tangram puzzles. Results showed that auditory distractors led to longer response latencies and reduced accuracy in Experiment 1. The addition of the textual stimulus during trials in Experiment 2 improved accuracy and reduced differences in response latency when the auditory distractors were and were not present during the response interval. The auditory distractors during tangram puzzles in Experiment 3 produced no differential effects on accuracy or latency to respond.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"34 1-2","pages":"24-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0098-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vernacular Selection: What to Say and When to Say It.","authors":"Paul Neuman","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0097-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-018-0097-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The language of behavior analysis is precise in the sense that it focuses attention on functional relations between behavior and the environment that are extended in time. However, to non-behavior analysts, behavior-analytic terms and explanations are difficult to understand and awkward sounding. Evidence suggests that this has had deleterious effects on the acceptance of the field of behavior analysis and its explanations of behavior. The goal of this article is to assert that verbal behavior that describes behavior is functionally related to subsequent explanatory verbal behavior. In addition, it is argued that technical language is not a requirement of precision and logical formulation. Suggestions are made regarding how behavior analysts can generate evidence to better understand explanatory preferences of individuals with various amounts of exposure to behavior analysis. In addition, methods are suggested for introducing behavior analysis to others with vernacular descriptions of behavior and its causes that do not obscure critical distinctions by introducing mental/mediational explanations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"34 1-2","pages":"62-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0097-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher A Tullis, Videsha Marya, M Alice Shillingsburg
{"title":"Enhancing Instruction via Instructive Feedback for a Child With Autism Using a Speech-Generating Device.","authors":"Christopher A Tullis, Videsha Marya, M Alice Shillingsburg","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0096-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-018-0096-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Instructive feedback (IF) is a procedure in which secondary targets are presented to a learner during instruction for primary skills. Previous research has demonstrated that students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may acquire at least a portion of skills presented via IF. Although it is a promising instructional methodology for learners with ASD, few studies focus on learners who use an augmentative device for communication purposes. The purpose of the current investigation was to extend the IF literature related to students with ASD who use communication devices. Across all target skills, IF resulted in the acquisition of at least a portion of secondary targets without explicit teaching.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"103-112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0096-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instructional Demonstrations are More Efficient Than Consequences Alone for Children with Naming.","authors":"Kieva Hranchuk, R Douglas Greer, Jennifer Longano","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0095-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-018-0095-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research found that without the naming cusp, children did not learn from instructional demonstrations presented before learn units (IDLUs) (i.e., modeling an expected response twice for a learner prior to delivering an instructional antecedent), however, following the establishment of naming, they could. The present study was designed to compare the rate of learning reading and mathematics objectives in children who showed naming using IDLUs compared to standard learn units (SLUs) alone (comparable to three-term contingency trials). In Phase 1, a pre-screening phase, we demonstrated that four typically developing males, 3 to 4 years of age, had naming within their repertoire, meaning they were able to master the names of novel 2-D stimuli as both a listener and a speaker without explicit instruction. Using the same participants in Phase 2, we compared rates of learning under two instructional methods using a series of repeated AB designs where conditions (IDLUs versus SLUs) were counterbalanced across dyads and replicated across participants. The participants learned more than twice as fast under IDLU conditions and showed between 30% and 50% accuracy on the first presentation of a stimulus following a model. The IDLU condition was more efficient (fewer trials to criterion) than the SLU condition. These findings, together with prior findings, suggest that the onset of naming allows children to learn faster when instructional demonstrations are incorporated into lessons.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0095-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation of the effects of a parent delivered stimulus-stimulus pairing intervention on vocalizations of two children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.","authors":"Lorna Barry, Jennifer Holloway, Ciara Gunning","doi":"10.1007/s40616-018-0094-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-018-0094-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communication deficits in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can manifest in a myriad of lifelong social and educational challenges. Many children with ASD fail to learn vocal verbal behavior and may require intensive individualized intervention to learn early verbal operants. The current research aimed to evaluate the effects of a parent delivered stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) procedure on target vocalizations of two young children with ASD who did not present with vocal verbal behavior. Results indicated the intervention was successful in increasing the frequency of the target vocalizations for both participants. Social validity results indicated that parents were satisfied with the intervention and their own implementation of these procedures. These results are discussed in terms of their implications for parent delivered interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"35 1","pages":"57-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-018-0094-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37574591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stuart Mullen, Mark R Dixon, Jordan Belisle, Caleb Stanley
{"title":"Establishing auditory-tactile-visual equivalence classes in children with autism and developmental delays.","authors":"Stuart Mullen, Mark R Dixon, Jordan Belisle, Caleb Stanley","doi":"10.1007/s40616-017-0092-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-017-0092-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a stimulus equivalence training procedure in establishing auditory-tactile-visual stimulus classes with 2 children with autism and developmental delays. Participants were exposed to vocal-tactile (A-B) and tactile-picture (B-C) conditional discrimination training and were tested for the emergence of vocal-picture (A-C) and picture-vocal (C-A) responses. The results demonstrated that, following training, both participants responded successfully on both the training stimulus arrangements and the test probes that were never trained, illustrating emergence of cross-modal transitive and equivalence relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"33 2","pages":"283-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-017-0092-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37041525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of <i>Verbal Behavior</i> on the scholarly literature from 2005 to 2016.","authors":"Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir, Bailey Devine","doi":"10.1007/s40616-017-0089-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-017-0089-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>B. F. Skinner's (1957) <i>Verbal Behavior</i> had a limited influence on empirical research in the first few decades following its publication, but an increase in empirical activity has been evident in recent years. The purpose of this article is to update previous analyses that have quantified the influence of <i>Verbal Behavior</i> on the scholarly literature, with an emphasis on its impact on empirical research. Study 1 was a citation analysis that showed an increase in citations to <i>Verbal Behavior</i> from 2005 to 2016 relative to earlier time periods. In particular, there was a large increase in citations from empirical articles. Study 2 identified empirical studies in which a verbal operant was manipulated or measured, regardless of whether or not <i>Verbal Behavior</i> was cited, and demonstrated a large increase in publication rate, with an increasing trend in the publication of both basic and applied experimental analyses throughout the review period. A majority of the studies were concerned with teaching verbal behavior to children with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities, but a variety of other basic and applied research topics were also represented. The results suggest a clearly increasing impact of <i>Verbal Behavior</i> on the experimental analysis of behavior on the 60th anniversary of the book's publication.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"33 2","pages":"212-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-017-0089-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37041520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andresa A DeSouza, Jessica S Akers, Wayne W Fisher
{"title":"Empirical Application of Skinner's Verbal Behavior to Interventions for Children with Autism: A Review.","authors":"Andresa A DeSouza, Jessica S Akers, Wayne W Fisher","doi":"10.1007/s40616-017-0093-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40616-017-0093-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sundberg and Michael (2011) reviewed the contributions of Skinner's (1957) <i>Verbal Behavior</i> to the treatment of language delays in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and discussed several aspects of interventions, including mand training, intraverbal repertoire development, and the importance of using Skinner's taxonomy of verbal behavior in the clinical context. In this article, we provide an update of Sundberg and Michael's review and expand on some discussion topics. We conducted a systematic review of studies that focused on Skinner's verbal operants in interventions for children with ASD that were published from 2001 to 2017 and discussed the findings in terms of journal source, frequency, and type of verbal operant studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"33 2","pages":"229-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-017-0093-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37041523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<b>Editorial</b>.","authors":"James E Carr","doi":"10.1007/s40616-017-0091-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-017-0091-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51684,"journal":{"name":"Analysis of Verbal Behavior","volume":"33 2","pages":"177-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40616-017-0091-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37041516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}