Rincover A, Koegel R L
J Appl Behav Anal. 1975 Fall;8(3):235-46. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1975.8-235.
This study was designed to assess the transfer of treatment gains of autistic children across settings. In the first phase, each of 10 autistic children learned a new behavior in a treatment room and transfer to a novel extra-therapy setting was assessed. Four of the 10 children showed no transfer to the novel setting. Therefore, in the second phase, each child who failed to transfer participated in an analysis of stimulus control in order to determine the variables influencing the deficit in transfer. Eachof the four children who did not transfer were selectively responding to an incidental stimulus during the original training in the treatment room. Utilizing a reversal design, each of the four children responded correctly in the extra-therapy setting when the stimulus that was functional during training was identified and introduced into the extra-therapy setting. The extreme selective responding and the resulting bizarre stimulus control found are discussed in relation to the issue of setting generality of treatment gains.
本研究旨在评估自闭症儿童治疗成果在不同环境中的迁移情况。在第一阶段，10名自闭症儿童中的每一位都在治疗室学习了一种新行为，并对其向新的额外治疗环境的迁移情况进行了评估。10名儿童中有4名在新环境中未出现迁移。因此，在第二阶段，每一位未能迁移的儿童都参与了刺激控制分析，以确定影响迁移缺陷的变量。在治疗室最初训练期间，未出现迁移的4名儿童中的每一位都对偶然刺激有选择性反应。采用反转设计，当识别出训练期间起作用的刺激并将其引入额外治疗环境时，这4名儿童中的每一位在额外治疗环境中都做出了正确反应。针对治疗成果的环境普遍性问题，讨论了极端的选择性反应以及由此发现的奇异刺激控制情况。
