Alternate Title

Effects of skill procedural integrity on skill acquisition

Advisor(s)

Laura Dudley

Contributor(s)

Dan Almeida, Hanna C. (Hanna Christian) Rue

Date of Award

2010

Date Accepted

4-2010

Degree Grantor

Northeastern University

Degree Level

M.S.

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department or Academic Unit

Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology.

Keywords

behavioral sciences, psychology

Subject Categories

Integrity - Case studies, Autistic children

Disciplines

Counseling Psychology

Abstract

Procedural integrity is the extent that the independent variable is implemented exactly as procedures are written. The current study examined the effects of different levels of procedural integrity on the skill acquisition of a 11 year-old girl diagnosed with autism. She was taught to wash clothes using 100% procedural integrity and to dry clothes at 50% procedural integrity. The task taught in the 50% procedural integrity condition took more trials to master than the task taught at 100% procedural integrity and produced more errors. These findings are consistent with previous studies suggesting that lower levels of procedural integrity will result in more trials to mastery and more errors.

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Rights Holder

Sacha K. Greenberg


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