Recommend Online Enrichment Considerations Inspired by Martin Ivancic’s CONSIDERING COVERT FUNCTIONS FOR BEHAVIOR (Email)

This action will generate an email recommending this article to the recipient of your choice. Note that your email address and your recipient's email address are not logged by this system.

EmailEmail Article Link

The email sent will contain a link to this article, the article title, and an article excerpt (if available). For security reasons, your IP address will also be included in the sent email.

Article Excerpt:
EverNotes from a Radical Behaviorist:  
  1. Generativity. I have been concerned about generativity for 50 years, at least. Simple concept formation like Herrnstein and Loveland’s (1964) pigeons pecking at pictures of people. This may even be an example of generativity where the stimulus class of people is hard to understand in terms of simple stimulus generalization. For example, We might get transfer to two pictures of people that are simply line drawings while we were trained only on full-color pictures. I imagine we might be able to train only green pictures of people and yet get transfer to red pictures of people but not a green chair. I am always amazed at the "generativity" of our autistic kids, like maybe transferring as the same concept of picture of mom and real mom and recognizing mama from the back and discriminating between her and another woman from the front. Maybe they have a complex behavioral history with mama outside of the DTT booth that helps with this quick concept formation and transfer to far out examples.


Article Link:
Your Name:
Your Email:
Recipient Email:
Message: