%0 Generic %1 ABA2007-447-69 %A Murphy, Colleen M. A. %A Martin, Toby L. %A Yu, C.T. %A Martin, Garry L. %A Verbeke, Aynsley K. %B 33rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis %D 2007 %K ABLA %T Where do relative position discriminations fall in the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Hierarchy? %X The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses an individual’s ability to learn auditory and visual discrimination tasks that relate to everyday behaviors. ABLA Level 2 is a two-choice discrimination based on three redundant cues: visual and absolute and relative position cues. This study examined a two-choice discrimination task based only on a relative position cue using either identical containers or visually-distinct containers. 20 participants with mental retardation, assessed at ABLA Levels 2-6, participated. Results showed that the Relative Position Discrimination fell below ABLA Level 6 and the visually-distinct and visually-identical variations were approximately of equal difficulty. Future research with a larger sample size is needed to confirm the tasks exact placement in the ABLA hierarchy.

@misc{ABA2007-447-69, abstract = {The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses an individual’s ability to learn auditory and visual discrimination tasks that relate to everyday behaviors. ABLA Level 2 is a two-choice discrimination based on three redundant cues: visual and absolute and relative position cues. This study examined a two-choice discrimination task based only on a relative position cue using either identical containers or visually-distinct containers. 20 participants with mental retardation, assessed at ABLA Levels 2-6, participated. Results showed that the Relative Position Discrimination fell below ABLA Level 6 and the visually-distinct and visually-identical variations were approximately of equal difficulty. Future research with a larger sample size is needed to confirm the tasks exact placement in the ABLA hierarchy.}, added-at = {2008-10-17T05:11:31.000+0200}, author = {Murphy, Colleen M. A. and Martin, Toby L. and Yu, C.T. and Martin, Garry L. and Verbeke, Aynsley K.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26f80878a089891d497c911daca55b251/dani}, booktitle = {33rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis}, interhash = {2a75d67df2253c5c9583edc74285d41d}, intrahash = {6f80878a089891d497c911daca55b251}, keywords = {ABLA}, month = May, organization = {Association for Behavior Analysis}, timestamp = {2008-10-17T05:11:31.000+0200}, title = {Where do relative position discriminations fall in the Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities Hierarchy?}, type = {poster presentation}, year = 2007 }