Document Type
Dissertation
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree
PhD in Behavior Analysis
Dissertation Defense Date
2013
First Committee Member
Hanley, Gregory P.
Second Committee Member
MacDonald, Rebecca
Third Committee Member
Dube, William V.
Additional Committee Member(s)
Dickson, Chata A.
Abstract
"Matrix training is the orderly arrangement of learning opportunities, structured in a manner to promote the development of untrained relations. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of matrix training for promoting recombinative generalization across a variety of skills, but no study has compared the relative effectiveness of matrix training to other teaching procedures. The purpose of the current study is to compare acquisition and recombinative generalization of novel relations across non-overlapping matrix training (NOMT), traditional discrimination training (TDT), and overlapping matrix training (OMT). The three students who participated all demonstrated similar acquisition performance across teaching procedures. A difference in performance across the teaching procedures was only evident when tests for recombinative generalization were conducted. Two of the students demonstrated stronger performance on recombinative generalization tests in the TDT condition relative to the NOMT condition. The third participant demonstrated stronger performance on recombinative generalization tests in the OMT condition relative to the NOMT. Secondary analyses suggested that NOMT promoted the development of stimulus overselectivity. Critical features of matrix training for promoting recombinative generalization are discussed."
Recommended Citation
Martineau, Meghan E., "On the utility of matrix training for teaching action-object relations to preschoolers : a comparative analysis" (2013). Doctoral Dissertations - College of Arts and Sciences. 38.
https://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/casdissertations/38
