What are examples of stimulus and response generalization?
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 One big concern in ABA is whether skills that are learned will carry over into other situations. This is especially important when a child receives services in a clinical setting. For example, a child can clean up his/her toys independently when prompted “clean up!” at the clinic. However, when the child’s parents say “clean up” at home, the child does not respond. This would reflect a lack of generalization. Generalization involves learning skills in one situation and then using those skills in another situation without specific teaching. So, what specific types of generalization are there and how do you promote increased generalization? Stimulus GeneralizationStimulus generalization has occurred when someone can perform a learned skill in new circumstances. For example a child, should be able to perform the skill in a new place or with different people. An example of this is when someone learns to ask their mother for help and then spontaneously asks their father for help as well. Stimulus generalization also includes identifying objects as equivalent with one another. For example, knowing the word “cat” can apply to a variety of different looking cats like Siamese, Maine Coon, etc. Response GeneralizationResponse generalization refers to learning a skill and then demonstrating a variation of it in similar situations. In other words, the individual engages in a similar behavior to a previously learned response to achieve the same result. A good example of this type of generalization is greetings. If you teach a child to greet someone by saying, “Hello,” and then they begin to say “Hi,” “What’s up?” and “How’s it going?”, they have demonstrated response generalization. Maintenance of Learned SkillsGeneralization across time means maintaining a behavior after it is learned. This is important because if a skill is learned and then forgotten, it would have to be taught again. One example of this includes learning to tie shoes. After this complex behavior is learned, we should not need prompts from anyone else. If we can continue to tie our shoes independently years later, we would say this skill has generalized across time. Strategies to Enhance Generalization
Too Much GeneralizationSometimes a child will start engaging in what is called “over-generalization”. This happens when a skill/behavior generalizes to an incorrect location, person, item, etc. Say you teach a child to say “mommy” when seeing a picture of his/her mom, but then he/she overgeneralizes the response “mommy” to all females. SummaryOverall, generalization is very important when learning new skills. If a behavior only happens in one specific situation, there has been a failure to generalize. This is why we must focus on using strategies described above to promote generalization so we do not have to teach the behavior in every situation where the skill is relevant. Our ThinkPsych Language Learning Cardsare specially designed to promote generalization.
Share this post with your friendsJessica Cowan, MA, BCBAJessica Cowan is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA #1-18-32314) residing in Florida. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Florida and her master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from The University of South Florida. Jessica has worked in behavior analysis related settings for over 5 years. Currently, she works in an early intervention clinic with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and also sees clients in the home and school settings as needed. Leave a CommentOur Best-Selling Products
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Copyright © 2021 ThinkPsych. All Rights reserved. What is an example of stimulus generalization?Stimulus generalization is the tendency of a new stimulus to evoke responses or behaviors similar to those elicited by another stimulus. For example, Ivan Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate using the sound of a bell and food powder.
What is the difference between stimulus and response generalization?The key difference between stimulus generalization and response generalization is that stimulus generalization occurs when multiple stimuli can generate the same response, while response generalization occurs when the same stimulus can generate multiple similar responses.
What are the examples of generalization?When you make a statement about all or most of the people or things together, you are making a generalization. For example: – All birds have wings. – Many children eat cereal for breakfast.
What is a stimulus generalization?Stimulus generalization is the ability to behave in a new situation in a way that has been learned in other similar situations. The problem is how to learn which aspects of the learning situations should be generalized.
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