PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Task Analysis, Errorless Learning, Classical Conditioning
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Fading is the gradual change over successive trials of an antecedent stimulus that controls a response so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new antecedent stimulus. Parents are likely to fade out their help and support when a child is learning to walk or to ride a bicycle. A dance instructor might use less and less hand pressure to guide a student through new dance steps. And as a teenager progresses in drivers" education, the driving instructor is likely to provide fewer and fewer hints regarding traffic regulations. Errorless discrimination training, sometimes referred to as errorless learning, is the use of a fading procedure to establish a stimulus discrimination so that no errors occur. Script-fading procedures have been used to teach children with autism to initiate interactions with others. Fading can also be used to teach tracing, copying, and drawing shapes (e. g. , circles, lines, squares, and triangles), numerals, and letters of the alphabet.
