Japanese Journal of Behavior Analysis

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Article type: Cover
1990 Volume 4 Pages Cover1-
Published: March 31, 1990
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Article type: Index
1990 Volume 4 Pages Toc1-
Published: March 31, 1990
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Compound words written in Kanji : Learning by a 3-year-old boy

YOSHINORI HASEGAWA

Article type: Article
1990 Volume 4 Pages 1-18
Published: March 31, 1990
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24456/jjba.4.0_1

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A boy was taught to read kanji (Chinese characters) by a "whole word 100k-say" training program, starting when he was 26 months old. When he was three years old, his reading development and his ability to make compound kanji words was examined. (a) He read a word or a compound word aloud more quickly when it was written in kanji or in a mixture of kanji and hiragana (Japanese script) than when it was written entirely in hiragana. (b) At first sight, he read aloud 64% of sentences written in a mixture of kanji and hiragana. (c) He made 57 compound words by combining 100 single kanji characters by himself. In Japan, it is generally believed that kanji should not be taught until a child has gained complete mastery of hiragana. The present results indicate, however, that the teaching of kanji reading may begin as early as the age of 2 : 2,and that such early learning gives a child an initial advantage in more complicated reading skills. The traditional method of teaching kanji should be reconsidered.

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Effects of interreinforcement interval and food delay on postreinforcement pause of Japanease monkeys

KAZUCHIKA MANABE

Article type: Article
1990 Volume 4 Pages 19-26
Published: March 31, 1990
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Three Japanease monkeys (Macaca fuscata) performed on three types of schedules : (a) a delay-dependent schedule where interreinforcement interval was held constant (i.e., increases in pause time decreased food delay), (b) an interreinforcement-interval-dependent schedule where food delay was held constant (i.e., increases in pause time increased interreinforcement interval), and (c) a both-dependent schedule where increases in pause time produced increases in interreinforcement interval but decreases in food delay. Pause times were typically shorter under the delay-dependent schedule than under the both-dependent sched-ule. Whereas pause time under the interreinforcement-interval-dependent schedule for I subject was similar to that under both-dependent schedule. The other subjects pause times under the interreinforcement-interval-dependent schedule were longer than that under the both-dependent schedule. The present results in monkeys confirmed the pigeons' results that neither the interreinforcement interval nor food delay is the primary variable controlling pause time, but rather that the two interact in a complex manner to determine the pause time.

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You can study without a teacher in institution : A study on the self-teaching system

HIROSHI WATANABE, AKIRA MOCHIZUKI

Article type: Article
1990 Volume 4 Pages 27-37
Published: March 31, 1990
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24456/jjba.4.0_27

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A self-teaching system using a personal computer was examined for three institutionalized adults with mental retardation to acquire reading the name of person, objects and chinese numericals. The system was consisted of a personal computer (NEC PC-9801) , a touch panel, a speech synthesizer ("Oshaberi-kun") , a small speaker unit, and an original soft-ware (MATCH) . The contents of self-teaching were some conditional discrimination (matchig-to-sample) tasks, in which three kinds of stimulus sets, "word" written by chinese character or kana, "picture", and "auditory word" were presented as a sample and/or comparison stimuli. A subject started the session by inserting a floppy disk into the computer and initiated a discrimination trial by producing visual or auditory sample stimulus, and terminated by the choise response to the one of the four comparison stimuli. One of the two graphical figures following each choise response informed the subject whether the response was correct or incorrect. A11 three subjects were able to manipulate the computer with a few instructions, and the post test showed two of three subjects could learn some sets of the names of per-son and numerical through the conditional discrimination.

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Verbal conditioning as a subject of experimental course to sophomores majoring in psychology of a four-year university

SHIGERU KUWATA

Article type: Article
1990 Volume 4 Pages 39-56
Published: March 31, 1990
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24456/jjba.4.0_39

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In the introductory course of "operant experiment" for the university students, infrahumans have mainly been used as experimental subjects. It might, however, be more effective to use human subjects, because the most students majoring in psychology, at least in the beginning, are more interested in human "mind" than infrahumans' behavior. In the present study, Taffel type verbal conditioning experiments were conducted to 77 sophomores with a single subject design. The results showed that the target response (the choice of "I" and "We") increased either by verbal or nonverbal reinforcer in 31% of all subjects. From the all of 87 students' responses on a post-experimental questionnaire, it was revealed that 53% of all students could understand the concept of positive reinforcement, and 47% of all students had interested in verbal conditioning. The reason for developing their interests in verbal conditioning was characterized either by the possibility of the conditioning without awareness or by its nature of everyday experience. Availability of verbal conditioning as a training method of operant conditioning and the problems of present experimental course were discussed.

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BBS networking for the personnel working for the handicapped person : MARUMONET in Aichi Prefectural Colony

AKIRA MOCHIZUKI, SHIGEO MASAKI

Article type: Article
1990 Volume 4 Pages 57-70
Published: March 31, 1990
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This article is a case study on the opening and management of a BBS(Bulletin Board System) computer network for the staff of institution, teacher of special education, and all pernonnel who work for the handicapped person in Aichi Prefecture. This BBS network (MARUMONET) got 78membership, 89 research data, and 61 statesment from the network members in fifteen months. Some problems, however, remain unsolved which might hinder the effectiveness of the network. The major problems are as follows; (i)The difficulty of the installation of the hard-and-software of networking for the members who are engaged in the daily work for the handicapped. (ii)Chronic shortage of the research data and the reaction to them which might reinforce the writing response of data. The function of the "local" BBS was discussed.

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Article type: Bibliography
1990 Volume 4 Pages 71-77
Published: March 31, 1990
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Article type: Appendix
1990 Volume 4 Pages 78-85
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Article type: Appendix
1990 Volume 4 Pages 86-
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Article type: Appendix
1990 Volume 4 Pages App1-
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Article type: Cover
1990 Volume 4 Pages Cover2-
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Article type: Cover
1990 Volume 4 Pages Cover3-
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.24456/jjba.4.0_Cover3

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