Which procedures involve stimulus control and transfer of control within discrimination training?

• A. Discrimination Training Procedures
• B. Stimulus Control Transfer Procedures
• C. Generalization
• D. Maintenance

Answer: (A)

Discrimination training is all about making a specific cue (the discriminative stimulus) control a behavior. You set up stimulus control by teaching the learner to respond to the SD and not to other cues (SΔ). As training unfolds, you use prompts and cues to guide correct responses and then steadily fade those prompts so the SD alone elicits the behavior. That process—establishing stimulus control and transferring that control from prompts to the actual discriminative cue—is built into discrimination training procedures. Generalization deals with applying a response to new but similar stimuli, maintenance focuses on keeping the behavior over time, and while transferring control is a part of discrimination training, the overarching procedures that incorporate establishing and moving stimulus control are the discrimination training procedures themselves.