The Cat Is Being Brushed By The Dog: The Role Of Automatic Reinforcement In Grammar becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside community routines and natural environments. In The Cat Is Being Brushed By The Dog: The Role Of Automatic Reinforcement In Grammar, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Because humans amass amazingly robust verbal behavior repertoires, it is not plausible that all verbal behavior is acquired through socially mediated reinforcement. Parity, a condition which occurs when a speaker's verbal behavior matches with the models provided by the verbal community, offers a potential mechanism for acquisition and audience control. Previous research examined the acquisition of novel or unfamiliar grammatical constructions in the absence of or in competition with socially mediated reinforcement. In this presentation, I will describe a study that builds upon previous literature on the emission of passive-voice autoclitic frames. An example of a tact with a passive-voice autoclitic frame is the response "The cat is being brushed by the dog" when shown a picture of a dog brushing a cat. In this study, we assessed the effects of modeling on the emission of passive-voice autoclitic frames by 13 children assigned to either a control, replication, or vocal-imitation group using a pre- and post-test design with multiple training and testing phases. Participants in the control group never used passive voice autoclitic frames, but most of the participants in the replication and vocal-imitation groups did after the training phases. I will compare these results to those found in previous studies and discuss potential mechanisms to account for the emission of passive voice autoclitic frames.
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Dr. Samantha Bergmann is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas. She co-directs the Training and Research: Autism Intervention Laboratory housed in the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center. Her research interests include applied and transitional questions related to procedural integrity, instructional efficacy and efficiency, stimulus control, and verbal behavior. Dr. Bergmann serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis in Practice and is an Associate Editor for The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Dr. Bergmann has presented at state, regional, and national conferences and has published research in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Behavior Analysis in Practice, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Psychological Record, the European Journal of Behavior Analysis, and Learning and Motivation.
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