PSYC 3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Errorless Learning, Stimulus Control, Homeschooling

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3451
• Professor: Bright Terri

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Concept: stimulus generalization within a class of stimuli and discrimination between classes of stimuli. It is a complex example of stimulus control. Discrimination training is a method of teaching a concept. Learn examples of what is the concept (sd) and what isn"t (s-delta) Alternatively, concepts may be learned via vicarious discrimination and reinforcement or verbal definition (i. e. , social story, children"s books) 2 m: think of/describe two examples of concepts you learned and describe how you learned them. Supplemental antecedent stimuli that are given before or during the performance of the target behavior: they facilitate the occurrence of a response so that reinforcement is delivered. Response and stimulus prompts: response prompts: behavior of another person that evokes a desired response in the presence of the sd. Stimuli used in conjunction with the task stimuli or instructional materials. Verbal response prompts: the verbal behavior of another person that promotes the desired response in the presence of the sd.