Effects of imitation training on immediate and delayed imitation by severely retarded children.
Contingent reinforcement was used in training eight severely retarded children who were previously judged to be nonimitative. A yoked control group was given comparable training, but with noncontingent reinforcement. Posttests of imitation of new behavior of a reinforced model showed significant immediate and delayed (15 minutes) imitation only in the contingent-reinforcement group.
D000293:Adolescent; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D012057:Reinforcement, Verbal; D013997:Time Factors