SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1
 
Cuevas, K., Rovee-Collier, C., & Learmonth , A. E. (2006). Infants form associations between memory representations of stimuli that are absent. Psychological Science, 17, 543-549. 
 
Summary:
This article tests whether infants can form an association between stimuli that are not actually presented simultaneously. The authors employ an operant task to assess what infants remember about stimuli and what they infer about the relationships among stimuli.
 
Discussion Questions:
  1. What do the authors describe as a basic requirement for the presence of stimuli if they are to be associated?
  2. How does the procedure used in this study assess whether two stimuli that are not simultaneously present can be associated?
  3. In Figure 4, which line provides some evidence that two stimuli not presented simultaneously were associated?
  4. Does this suggest that infants represent these as declarative or as procedural knowledge?
 
Article 2
 
Wolfe, K., Slocum, T. A., & Kunnavatana, S.  (2014). Promoting behavioral variability in individuals with autism Spectrum Disorders: A Literature Review. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 29, 180–190. 
 
Summary:
This article reviews studies that were designed to promote behavioral variability in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The value of variability in behavior is described in terms of functionality in social and non-social situations.
 
Discussion Questions:
  1. What do the authors describe as the down side to invariant, repetitive behavior?
  2. Why is some variation in behavior good?
  3. What kinds of schedules of reinforcement have been used to increase behavioral variability?
  4. If the behavioral repertoire of an autistic child shows little variable spontaneously, what is recommended to increase the variability?