ArticleJournal of applied behavior analysis2025
An analysis of the generalization of pretend play from real objects to toys.
Article in Journal of applied behavior analysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Evaluating the Feasibility of Methods of Live Data Collection for Sociability Assessments.Behavior analysis in practice · 2026Article
- Within-Session Matching Analyses to Quantify the Effects of Individualized Preferred Interactions on Social Time Allocation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- An analysis of the generalization of pretend play from real objects to toys.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Article
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Abstract
Researchers have reported that children engage in pretend play that reflects the conventional activities of their environment (i.e., learned-combinations play). In contrast, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display fewer and less varied play behaviors. Research on teaching pretend play to children with ASD often involves prompting and reinforcing scripted responses. Although effective, these procedures may be limited because they can produce rigid, rote play rather than pretend play reenacting real-life events. This study evaluated the effects of teaching actions with real objects on the emergence of generalized learned-combinations play with three children with ASD. Overall, teaching children actions using real objects facilitated generalization of those actions with toys. We provide future directions for research when limited generalization is observed with some toys. Additionally, we discuss the implications of automatic reinforcement and the motivating operation in relation to our findings.
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