Teaching cooking skills using matrix training and video prompting

Document Type

Thesis

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Degree

M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis

Date Completed

2014

First Committee Member

MacDonald, Rebecca

Second Committee Member

Dickson, Chata

Third Committee Member

Karsten, Amanda

Abstract

"The purpose of the present study was to teach cooking skills to children with autism using matrix training in combination with video prompting. A non-concurrent multiple baseline design across two participants was used. Participants were first taught to imitate cooking related actions on objects using matrix training and video prompting. The video prompt was then removed. If recombinative generalization occurred with untrained actions, then training began with the subsequent matrix. Three different 3x3 matrices were used to teach the various cooking skills. After mastery and recombinative generalization occurred for each matrix, the students were presented with three picture recipes (brownies, pudding and rice) that included untrained matrix relations and instructed to complete the recipes. Results indicated that matrix training was effective in teaching cooking skills to children diagnosed with autism. The participants were able to complete the three picture recipes as a result of the cooking skills taught during matrix training and video prompting."

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