Assessment of Stimulus Overselectivity with Tactile Compound Stimuli in Children with Autism

Autor/inn/en	Ploog, Bertram O.; Kim, Nina
Titel	Assessment of Stimulus Overselectivity with Tactile Compound Stimuli in Children with Autism
Quelle	In: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37 (2007) 8, S.1514-1524 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3257
DOI	10.1007/s10803-006-0244-5
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Rewards; Autism; Task Analysis; Children; Discrimination Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Reward; Belohnung; Autismus; Aufgabenanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Lernen; Lernprozess
Abstract	Autistic and typical children mastered a simultaneous discrimination task with three sets of all-tactile compound stimuli. During training, responding to one stimulus (S+) resulted in rewards whereas responding to the alternative (S-) was extinguished. Test 1 was conducted with recombinations of S+ and S- elements. In Test 2, the test stimulus to which the child responded most in Test 1 was pitched against the training S+. In Test 1, all children responded exclusively to one test probe, spuriously implying stimulus overselectivity in both populations. However, in Test 2, the typical children responded mostly to the training S+ indicating control by both S+ elements; the autistic children responded to both stimuli indicating reduced control by the second S+ element (indicating overselectivity). (Author).
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