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Teaching Age and Gender Discrimination by the Enhancement of Criterion-related Cues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Jon C. Reading  and
Alastair K. Ager
Jon C. Reading
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Central Hospital, Hatton, South Warwickshire
Alastair K. Ager
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester
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Teaching procedures encouraging the “errorless” acquisition of discriminations through the enhancement of criterion-related cues have proved popular and effective in work with individuals with severe learning difficulties. To date, however, their application has primarily been restricted to the learning of relatively simple discriminations, such as size and colour. The present study describes the successful implementation using two adults with severe learning difficulties of a teaching programme adopting this approach with respect to the skills of age and gender discrimination. Along with encouraging generalization and maintenance data, this success suggests that procedures involving the enhancement of criterion-related cues may have utility with a far broader range of tasks than previously considered.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 207 - 219
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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