McIlvane W J, Gerard C J, Kledaras J B, Mackay H A, Lionello-DeNolf K M
Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Praxis, Inc., Belmont, MA.
Eur J Behav Anal. 2016;17(1):49-68. doi: 10.1080/15021149.2016.1139363. Epub 2016 Apr 27.
This paper discusses recent methodological approaches and investigations that are aimed at developing reliable behavioral technology for teaching stimulus-stimulus relations to individuals who are minimally verbal and show protracted difficulty in acquiring such relations. The paper has both empirical and theoretical content. The empirical component presents recent data concerning the possibility of generating rapid relational learning in individuals who do not initially show it. The theoretical component (1) considers decades of methodological investigations with this population and (2) suggests a testable hypothesis concerning some individuals exhibit unusual difficulties in learning. Given this background, we suggest a way forward to better understand and perhaps resolve these learning challenges.
本文讨论了近期的方法学途径和研究，这些旨在为极少言语且在习得刺激-刺激关系方面存在长期困难的个体开发可靠的行为技术。本文兼具实证和理论内容。实证部分呈现了有关在最初未表现出快速关系学习能力的个体中产生这种学习可能性的最新数据。理论部分（1）回顾了针对该群体数十年的方法学研究，（2）提出了一个关于某些个体在学习中表现出异常困难的可检验假设。鉴于此背景，我们提出了一条更好理解并可能解决这些学习挑战的前进道路。
