Establecimiento de reglas prosociales del tipo aumento formativo (augmenting formative) mediante entrenamiento en discriminaciones condicionales

Abstract

The objective of the study was to examine the efficiency
of training in formative augmenting pro-
social rules.
In the experiment six children participated.
The intra-subject design proposed by
Sidman and Tailby (1982) was used, with two conditions, training and testing. Four phases were
applied: establishment of the “self-care” functional class, establishment of the “others” functional
class, the establishment of the formative augmenting rule, and test phase. The participants of the
experimental phase passed through the four phases of the program,
whereas those of the control phase
passed through phases 1, 2 and 4.
The results demonstrate that the participants who through the
experimental phase acquired the formative augmenting rule as product of the training in conditional
discriminations based on the sample TO TAKE CARE and its comparers
TAX, RAY and JOR with total percentages of relative success of 88,8%, 72,2% and 94,4%, respectively. This data suggests that
the establishment of formative augmenting rules is possible by through this type of training