Stimulus presentation order in receptive identification tasks: A systematic replication.

Conflicting recommendations exist in the literature regarding the optimal order of stimulus presentation when teaching auditory-visual conditional discriminations. The present study examined the generality of a previously demonstrated advantage of presenting the auditory sample before visual comparisons (sample-first condition) over the reverse sequence (comparison-first condition). Participants were four typically developing 5- and 6-year-old boys.

The impact of on the scholarly literature from 2005 to 2016.

B. F. Skinner's (1957) 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.

Emergence of Intraverbal Responding Following Tact Instruction with Compound Stimuli.

Effective intraverbal responding often requires control by multiple elements of a verbal stimulus. The purpose of this study was to examine the emergence of such intraverbal relations following tact instruction with compound stimuli and to analyze any resulting error patterns. Participants were seven typically developing children between 3 and 5 years of age.

Application of a lag contingency to reduce perseveration on circumscribed interests.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of a lag reinforcement contingency on the conversation topics of children diagnosed with autism who perseverated on circumscribed interests (CIs).

Method: Single-case design study with two participants, age 11 and 12 years. A functional analysis employed an alternating-treatments design to assess effects of contingent attention on conversational behavior.