A portion of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty acquiring conditional discrimination. However, previous researchers suggested that the discrimination of nonverbal auditory stimuli may be acquired more efficiently (Eikeseth & Hayward, 2009; Uwer, et al., 2002). For example, a child may learn to touch a picture of a piano after hearing the musical instrument more quickly than when the auditory stimulus is the spoken word “piano.” The purpose of the present study was to extend previous research by assessing the acquisition of conditional discriminations with sample stimuli presented as either automated spoken words or high- and low-disparity nonverbal auditory stimuli (i.e., environmental sounds). Conditional discriminations with high-disparity environmental sounds as sample stimuli were acquired rather than or more efficiently than those trained with low-disparity environmental sounds and words as sample stimuli.

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语音和单词的比较作为判别训练的样本刺激

一部分被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 的儿童难以获得条件歧视。然而，之前的研究人员认为，可以更有效地获得对非语言听觉刺激的辨别力（Eikeseth & Hayward，2009；Uwer 等，2002）。例如，与听觉刺激是口语“钢琴”一词相比，孩子在听到乐器后可能会更快地学会触摸钢琴的图片。本研究的目的是通过评估以自动口语或高低差异非语言听觉刺激（即环境声音）形式呈现的样本刺激的条件歧视的获得来扩展先前的研究。