When you hear the term “generality”, you probably think of stimulus generalization. Or maybe it’s response generalization. Actually, “generality'“ doesn’t really mean either of those terms. Well, not exactly, though perhaps a little bit. But we’re missing the point. Which is improving our ability to develop meaningful treatments which support skill development across environments. And that’s generalization. Though it doesn’t quite capture the idea of generality. Look, it’ll make more sense after you listen to the episode on these similar—but not the same—terms.

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Articles discussed this episode:

Stokes, T.F. & Baer, D.M. (1977). An implicit technology of generalization. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 10, 349-367. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-349

Johnston, J.M. (1979). On the relation between genearlization and generality. The Behavior Analyst, 2, 1-6. doi: 10.1007/BF03391833

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