Producing generalized job initiative in severely mentally retarded sheltered workers.
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.
McCuller
G L
GL
Department of Special Education, Utah State University, Logan 84322-6500.
Salzberg
C L
CL
Lignugaris/Kraft
B
B
D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005246:Feedback; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012381:Role Playing; D012759:Sheltered Workshops