Producing Generalized Job Initiative in Severely Mentally Retarded Sheltered Workers

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volume

20

Issue

4

Publication Date

1987

First Page

413

Last Page

421

Abstract

The development of generalized job initiative was examined with three severely retarded men working in an industrial assembly area of a sheltered workshop. Interventions included discrimination training, role-play training, and self-monitoring. For each participant, training was applied sequentially to three sets of job initiative behaviors. Intensive training was required to establish the first set of job initiative behaviors; however, the second and third sets of job initiative behaviors were learned with only discrimination training. The discussion summarizes the findings and suggests research needed to develop more powerful learning-to-learn paradigms.

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