Multiple Exemplar Training
Also called: training sufficient exemplars, general case instruction
Definition
Teaching a skill with many different examples of the stimuli, settings, people and materials the learner will meet, so that responding generalizes to untrained cases. It is the most reliable of the strategies for promoting generalization described by Stokes and Baer, and the alternative to hoping a skill taught with one example will spread on its own.
In plain language
Teach the skill with many different examples, people and places. Then it works everywhere, not just with the teaching materials.
Example
"Cup" is taught with six cups of different colors, sizes and materials, across the kitchen and the clinic.
Not multiple exemplar training
Teaching "cup" with one blue cup at one table and expecting the word to spread.
See also
Written from
- stokes-baer-1977
Written from Stokes and Baer (1977). No textbook glossary consulted.
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