Saunders, K. J., Johnston, M. D., & Brady, N. C. (2000).
Identity matching of consonant-vowel-consonant words by prereaders.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
33, 309-312.
Using an identity matching-to-sample procedure, normally
developing prereaders who matched individual letters with high
accuracy (e.g., m and s) did not show high accuracy
in matching three-letter printed words that differed only in the
first letter (e.g., mad and sad). Teachers and
researchers should not assume that children who can discriminate
individual letters can also discriminate minimally different
words that contain those letters.
DESCRIPTORS: _identity matching, reading, stimulus control,
complex stimuli