The establishment of stimulus control over pairs of graphically similar letters and syllables: A comparison among trial and error, fading and stimulus shaping / Uma comparação entre procedimentos de estabelecimento de controle de estímulos entre pares de letras com grafias semelhantes e no reconhecimento de sílabas: tentativa e erro, fading e shaping de estímulos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The purpose of this study was to compare 3 procedures to establish stimulus control between graphically similar letters. The participants were 12 non literate children, ages 2 to 6.The children were first exposed to an identity matching to sample test with letters. Then, they were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 simple discrimination training procedures: trial and error (in which all trials involved the two final letters), fading (in which intensity of S- was manipulated) and stimulus shaping (in which meaningful pictures were progressively shaped in the final letters). Each child received training in a simple discrimination task with 1 to 3 pairs of similar letters (a/o, a/e, b/d e f/t) and their reversals. Errors in the pretest determined the pairs of letters to be trained. They were then submitted to the the same identity MTS test with letters and to an identity MTS test with syllables, in which the consonants and vowels trained were combined to form 7 syllables, the sample stimuli. The incorrect comparisons were: the sequence vowel plus consonant (equal to the sample) and a syllable with the samples consonant and a different vowel. A test with the simultaneous presentation of a syllable formed by a consonant + vowel (a true syllable in Portuguese) and a vowel+ consonant (a non existent syllable in Portuguese) was then conducted. Seven syllables were tested. A short simple discrimination training of those syllables with 100% errors during test and a second MTS test with syllables were conducted. Results showed that, although both stimulus control shaping procedures resulted in fewer errors during discrimination training, they were not fully effective in controlling discriminative behavior on the final trials of training and on the identity MTS posttest with letters. Training with fading resulted in more errors in the last trials. The syllable training seemed to be insufficient to establish control by the relative position of letters. Problems with the sequence of training stimuli used for stimulus shaping and the syllable training are discussed

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letras com grafia semelhante errorless discrimination procedimentos de modelagem do controle de estímulos estimulacao sensorial shaping de estímulos psicologia experimental avaliacao de comportamento discriminação sem erro stimulus control shaping procedures stimulus shaping psicologia experimental graphically similar letters crianças não alfabetizadas non-literate children

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