Georgian Court University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2020 Apr;53(2):1080-1088. doi: 10.1002/jaba.627. Epub 2019 Sep 1.
Recent research has evaluated the effects of brief habit reversal, consisting of either awareness training (AT) and competing response training (Mancuso & Miltenberger, 2016), or AT alone (Spieler & Miltenberger, 2017) in reducing speech disfluencies during public speaking. Although both formats of brief habit reversal reduced rates of speech disfluencies, results suggested that teaching a competing response (CR) may produce better outcomes. We aimed to replicate and extend those studies by evaluating the effects of AT and instructing the use of a CR (a silent pause) on rates of speech disfluencies and CRs during public speaking. Following training, all 4 participants demonstrated a reduction of speech disfluencies, and 1 participant demonstrated moderate levels of CRs when giving a speech in front of both a single experimenter and small audience. For 1 participant, generalized effects were demonstrated when presenting in front of a class.
最近的研究评估了简短习惯逆转的效果，包括意识训练（AT）和竞争反应训练（Mancuso & Miltenberger, 2016），或仅 AT（Spieler & Miltenberger, 2017），以减少公开演讲中的言语不流畅。尽管简短习惯逆转的两种形式都降低了言语不流畅的发生率，但结果表明，教授竞争反应（CR）可能会产生更好的结果。我们旨在通过评估 AT 的效果以及指导使用竞争反应（一个无声停顿）对公开演讲中的言语不流畅率和竞争反应率的影响来复制和扩展这些研究。培训后，所有 4 名参与者在公开演讲中言语不流畅的发生率都有所降低，其中 1 名参与者在面对一名实验者和一小部分观众时表现出了中等水平的竞争反应。对于 1 名参与者，当在全班面前演讲时，表现出了普遍的效果。
