Procedures for promoting generalization Flashcards
using different voice volumes, teaching in different locations, changing the gestures he uses, and changing the language he uses. Non-critical aspects of the environment are varied. Keep the environment unstructured an ever-changing what
Train loosely
You are using a variety of different stimuli and response variations to teach. Example the clients says their phone number to many different people and can also write it or text it
Multiple exemplars
Making the teaching setting similar to the generalized setting. Example makes the home similar to the classroom
Program common stimuli
Contingencies that occur naturally. Example natural consequences
Natural contingencies
Systematic process for identifying and selecting teaching examples that represent the full range of what the generalization setting might contain. Ex: teaching a student to buy milk with cash and buy a book with a debit card
General case
When teaching generalization, the learner does not know when reinforcement will come. Example: fade reinforcement schedules, keep schedules thin. Disguising when reinforcement will be delivered. 
Indiscriminable contingencies
Example: making a sandwich is OK with fresh bread but not with stale bread. Teaching the client what is not an example
Non-examples
Performing a skill in an untrained environment
Generalization
When a person performs a variety of functional responses in the presence of the same stimuli or different behaviors with the same function occur across one stimuli. Multiple responses to one stimulus
Example: in the presence of your friend, you say hi, what’s up, or wave
Response generalization
When a stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same response is evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties of the controlling stimulus or the same response occurs across multiple similar stimuli. Example: a child screams when he sees a white rat, and also screams when he sees stuffed animals
Stimulus generalization