Test 2 Taylor and Hoch

Question 1

design

Answer 1

MBL across participants

Question 2

Purpose

Answer 2

examine the effects of prompting procedures and social (rather than tangible) reinforcement
contingencies to teach children with autism to
engage in three components of joint attention:
to shift their gaze between an object and an
adult’s eyes, to vocally respond to bids for joint
attention, and to initiate vocal bids for joint
attention.

Question 3

DVs

Answer 3

looking at item
commenting on item
look back at instructor
initiated bids for JA

Question 4

IVs

Answer 4

Intervention:
verbal directive (wow!)
target item
instructor response to comment
use of prompting strategies

Question 5

Baseline

Answer 5

bait environment with exiting items, leasiure activity available, wait 1 min for JA bid, then played leisure activity, then instructor pointed at item every 30s

Question 6

Prompting

Answer 6

responding: echoic
initiating: time delay, prox, phys and gestural

Question 7

Results

Answer 7

all DVs increased