Lovaas O I, Berberich J P, Perloff B F, Schaeffer B
Science. 1966 Feb 11;151(3711):705-7. doi: 10.1126/science.151.3711.705.
Two mute schizophrenic children were taught imitative speech within an operant conditioning framework. The training procedure consisted of a series of increasingly fine verbal discriminations; the children were rewarded for closer and closer reproductions of the attending adults' speech. We found that reward delivered contingent upon imitation was necessary for development of imitation. Furthermore, the newly established imitation was shown to have acquired rewarding properties for the children.
在操作性条件反射框架内，对两名患精神分裂症的聋哑儿童进行了模仿言语训练。训练过程包括一系列越来越精细的言语辨别；孩子们因越来越接近模仿在场成年人的言语而得到奖励。我们发现，基于模仿给予奖励对于模仿能力的发展是必要的。此外，新建立的模仿行为对孩子们来说已具有奖励性质。
