Department of Psychology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California 95211, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2011 Summer;44(2):305-14. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-305.
We taught manual signs to typically developing infants using a reversal design and caregiver-nominated stimuli. We delivered the stimuli on a time-based schedule during baseline. During the intervention, we used progressive prompting and reinforcement, described by Thompson et al. (2004, 2007), to establish mands. Following sign training, we conducted functional analyses and verified that the signs functioned as mands. These results provide preliminary validation for the verbal behavior functional analysis methodology and further evidence of the functional independence of verbal operants.
我们使用反转设计和照顾者提名的刺激物来教授正常发育的婴儿使用手动符号。我们在基线期间按照基于时间的时间表提供刺激。在干预期间，我们使用了渐进式提示和强化，如 Thompson 等人（2004 年，2007 年）所述，来建立需求。在符号训练之后，我们进行了功能分析，并验证了这些符号确实具有需求功能。这些结果为言语行为功能分析方法提供了初步验证，并进一步证明了言语操作的功能独立性。
