EMPHASIS AS A PROMPT FOR VERBAL IMITATION1
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 3 (3) , 185-190
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1970.3-185
Abstract
Four- and five-yr-old disadvantaged children were read sentences composed of varying numbers of short phrases. The children were asked to repeat each sentence, but the accuracy of their imitations was not differentially reinforced. The teacher stressed (emphasized) certain words as she read each sentence. The proportion of words that were stressed was systematically varied. In general, the children imitated only parts of most sentences. Stress was effective in influencing which parts of a sentence the children would imitate, but only when relatively few words were stressed. Stressing a word increased the probability of a child's imitating that word (and, to a large extent, the entire phrase containing that word) as an inverse function of the proportion of the words that were stressed.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- SOME EXPERIMENTS ON THE ORGANIZATION OF A CLASS OF IMITATIVE BEHAVIORS1,2,3Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1968
- AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL IMITATION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN1Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1968
- ESTABLISHING USE OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES IN THE SPONTANEOUS SPEECH OF DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN1Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1968
- SOME CURRENT DIMENSIONS OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS1Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1968
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMITATION BY REINFORCING BEHAVIORAL SIMILARITY TO A MODEL1Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1967
- Establishing functional speech in echolalic childrenBehaviour Research and Therapy, 1967
- Use of reinforcement and imitation to reinstate verbal behavior in mute psychotics.Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1965
- Reinforcement control of generalized imitation in young childrenJournal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1964