We taught three children with autism how to respond to abduction lures presented by strangers. We then tested undesirable generalization of the safety response to matched instructions to leave by a familiar adult. Following training, all three participants engaged in the safety response across both strangers and familiar adults. Thus, we evaluated a set of procedures for establishing discriminated responding. Appropriate responding to instructions to leave by strangers versus familiar adults was achieved only after discrimination training. Discriminated responding occurred across a novel setting and maintained across 3 months; however, performance during stimulus generalization probes within community settings was variable.

我们教了三个自闭症儿童如何应对陌生人提出的诱拐诱饵。然后，我们测试了对熟悉的成年人离开的匹配指令的安全反应的不良概括。培训结束后，所有三名参与者都对陌生人和熟悉的成年人进行了安全响应。因此，我们评估了一套建立歧视性反应的程序。只有在歧视训练后，才能对陌生人和熟悉的成年人离开的指示做出适当的反应。歧视性反应发生在一个新的环境中，并维持了 3 个月；然而，在社区环境中进行刺激泛化探测期间的表现是可变的。