Equivalence Class Formation in Individuals With Autism: Predictions From ABLA-R Levels.

IF 0.7 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Analysis of Verbal Behavior Pub Date : 2020-08-31 eCollection Date: 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1007/s40616-020-00134-1
Larissa Bezerra de Melo Wider, Romariz da Silva Barros, André A B Varella
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Children who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often fail to show equivalence class formation. This may be related to their difficulty in learning the programmed baseline conditional discriminations. The present study investigated equivalence class formation after training visual identity-matching performance with auditory class-specific consequences in 6 individuals who were diagnosed with ASD and who achieved different levels (Levels 4, 5, and 6) on the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities-Revised (ABLA-R). The potentially emergent relations were all arbitrary (relations between completely dissimilar stimuli): visual-visual (AB and BA) and auditory-visual (SA and SB). None of the participants who achieved ABLA-R Level 4 or 5 responded in accord with equivalence class formation. They did not present any emergent arbitrary conditional relations (either visual-visual relations or auditory-visual relations). Only participants who achieved ABLA-R Level 6 demonstrated equivalence class formation. These findings are consistent with the predictive ability of the ABLA-R with regard to the acquisition of discriminations and to the emergence of the same type of conditional relations and the same hierarchy of complexity.

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自闭症患者的等价类形成:从 ABLA-R 水平进行预测。
被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍(ASD)的儿童往往无法显示等价类的形成。这可能与他们在学习程序化基线条件辨别时遇到的困难有关。本研究调查了6名被诊断为自闭症谱系障碍且在基本学习能力评估-修订版(ABLA-R)中达到不同水平(4级、5级和6级)的个体,在用听觉类别特异性后果训练视觉身份匹配表现后等价类别的形成。可能出现的关系都是任意关系(完全不同的刺激之间的关系):视觉-视觉(AB 和 BA)和听觉-视觉(SA 和 SB)。没有一位达到 ABLA-R 4 级或 5 级的参与者按照等价类的形成做出反应。他们没有提出任何新出现的任意条件关系(视觉-视觉关系或听觉-视觉关系)。只有达到 ABLA-R 6 级的参与者才表现出等价类形成。这些发现与 ABLA-R 对辨别能力的获得以及同类条件关系和复杂性等级的出现的预测能力是一致的。
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Analysis of Verbal Behavior
Analysis of Verbal Behavior PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB) is an official publication of the Association for Behavior Analysis International.  The Mission of the journal is to support the dissemination of innovative empirical research, theoretical conceptualizations, and real-world applications of the behavioral science of language. The journal embraces diverse perspectives of human language, its conceptual underpinnings, and the utility such diversity affords. TAVB values contributions that represent the scope of field and breadth of populations behavior analysts serve, and Is the premier publication outlet that fosters increased dialogue between scientists and scientist-practitioners.  Articles addressing the following topics are encouraged: language acquisition, verbal operants, relational frames, naming, rule-governed behavior, epistemology, language assessment and training, bilingualism, verbal behavior of nonhumans, research methodology, or any other topic that addresses the analysis of language from a behavior analytic perspective.
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