PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Axel Jump, Stimulus Control, Electrodermal Activity
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Transferring behavior to new settings and making it last: generality of behavioral change. Ex: helping carole have a successful class presentation. For carole, the training situations were her bedroom in front of a mirror and the empty classroom. The target situation was the classroom with the audience consisting of the instructor and the other students. It should be noted that the term situation in training situation and target situation may refer to particular stimuli or to particular settings, or to both. For example, in teaching reading, after a child learns to read one passage (a training situation) we would want him or her to be able to read untrained passages (test situations). Similarly, after a child has learned to read in a classroom (a training situation) we would want him or her to be able to read at home (a target situation). Because programming for generality is somewhat different for operant and respondent behavior, we shall consider each separately.
