A one-trial learning color discrimination task was extrapolated from Jarvik's (1953) teaching color discrimination to primates. A yellow-blue discrimination was selected to teach eleven autistic children. As in Jarvik's, SD and SA, reinforcer and punisher, were one and the same. Sugar-flavored water was the S D alum-flavored water, S . The instrumental response of reaching for a colored glass and drinking was established. Then one-trial learning occurred. The learning tests were a block of twenty-five trials for each individual subject on the following day. The second day another block of twenty-five trials was administered to each subject. It was hypothesized that the subjects would function at a ninety per cent criterion level. None of the subjects learned the task.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663719 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Ellis, Janet |
| Contributors | Kooker, Earl W., Whaley, Donald L. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 31 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Ellis, Janet, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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