PSYB45H3 Lecture 5: Fading and Behavioural Chaining
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Real world example: the importance of generalization in teaching new skills to children with autism. Generalization of skills is a very important goal. Https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=xu395hgxl2s&t=3s: they really stress the importance of applying generalization in the real world, fro(cid:373) the therap(cid:455) roo(cid:373) to the (cid:272)hild"s real (cid:449)orld. The gradual change over successive trials of a stimulus that controls a response, so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new stimulus: transferring control of a response from one stimuli to another. Process of slowly removing prompts after behaviour has been established. Example: teaching a child to ride a bike: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=ncfq_jyrd4o, getting less and less support from the father as the behaviour of riding a bike is established. Fading can be used for errorless discrimination training (aka. errorless learning), shifting the stimulus discrimination with no (or few) errors: contrasts to trial and error procedures, advantages over trial and error procedures: Once an error occurs, it tends to re-occur many times.
