Adam H. Doughty & Kathryn J. Saunders.
Decreasing errors in reading-related matching to sample using a delayed-sample procedure.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
42, 717-721.
Two men with intellectual disabilities initially demonstrated intermediate
accuracy in two-choice matching-to-sample (MTS) procedures. A printed-letter
identity MTS procedure was used with 1 participant, and a spoken-to-printed-word
MTS procedure was used with the other participant. Errors decreased substantially
under a delayed-sample procedure, in which the choice stimuli were presented first
and the sample was presented only after 5 s without a response to the choice stimuli.
DESCRIPTORS: conditional discrimination, delayed sample, intellectual disabilities, matching to sample