Question

A psychologist is teaching a woman with intellectual disabilities the skills that she needs to clean her apartment. Training sessions are conducted in the woman’s apartment, and the psychologist provides reinforcers when the woman demonstrates the proper cleaning skills. Which strategy for promoting generalization is the psychologist using?

Answer 1

Answer:

reinforcing occurrences of generalization.

Explanation:

A psychologist is teaching a woman with intellectual disabilities the skills that she needs to clean her apartment. Training sessions are conducted in the woman’s apartment, and the psychologist provides reinforces when the woman demonstrates the proper cleaning skills. Which strategy for promoting generalization is the psychologist using reinforcing occurrences of generalization. Generalization is the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli,therefore one way to promote generalization is to reinforce the behavior when generalization occurs which will spread the effects of a behavior  and strengthening contingency to other responses that are similar to the target skills.