Date of Award
5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Behavioral Analysis
First Advisor
Catherine Nicholson
Second Advisor
David Wilder
Third Advisor
Vida Tyc
Fourth Advisor
Mary Beth Kenkel
Abstract
The inclusion of instructive feedback (IF) targets in discrete trial training (DTT) has been shown to increase the efficiency of DTT procedures. However, the behavioral mechanism underlying the effectiveness of this procedure has not been determined. Researchers have suggested that students self-echo the feedback, which mediates later responding. The present study sought to understand the role of self-echoics in the acquisition of untaught targets. The three experimental conditions were 1) a typical IF procedure, 2) a vocal mediation-blocking procedure, in which the participants were asked to engage in a competing vocal response immediately after the IF was presented, and 3) a motor-distraction procedure, in which the participants were asked to engage in a motor response immediately after the IF was presented. The inclusion of the vocal mediation-blocking task had little effect on the participants’ ability to learn the IF statements.
Recommended Citation
Dressel, Amelisa, "The Effect of a Mediation-Blocking Task on the Acquisition of Instructive Feedback Targets" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 110.
https://repository.fit.edu/etd/110
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