Selecting and Implementing InterventionsDifficulty 2/5
Which strategy best promotes generalization of a newly acquired greeting response?
- AIncrease reinforcement magnitude in the teaching setting to strengthen the response
- BTrain sufficient exemplars across people and settings and recruit natural reinforcement
- CRun more massed trials with the same therapist until responding is fluent
- DDelay generalization work until mastery in the teaching setting is documented
Show answer and rationale
Correct: B. Programming common stimuli, training multiple exemplars and recruiting natural communities of reinforcement are established generalization tactics. Concentrating practice in one context narrows stimulus control.
- A — Stronger reinforcement in one setting does not transfer stimulus control.
- C — More of the same context strengthens the narrow control.
- D — Generalization is designed into teaching, not appended afterwards.