Use of Conditional-Discrimination Training in Remembering Relatives in a Man with Alzheimer’s Disease

• Autores: Anette Brogård Antonsen, Erik Arntzen
• Localización: International journal of psychology and psychological therapy, ISSN 1577-7057, Vol. 23, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 3-15
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo (pdf)
• Resumen

  • In this study, a 72-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease and a Mini-Mental Status (MMS) score of 25 participated. The participant was presented for class-formation sorting tests and conditional-discrimination training sequences and tests with portraits of close family members, their names, and family relationships as stimuli. The purpose of the study was to identify intact relations between stimuli, stimulus control issues and thereafter reestablish relations between stimuli. In the sorting tests, intact and weakened stimulus relations were identified. In addition, the results showed how correct stimulus control was reestablished after tailoring the conditional-discrimination training after the participant had shown systematical incorrect responding to some of the presented stimuli.

• Referencias bibliográficas
  • Aggio NM, de Oliveira Teixeira I, & de Rose JC (2020). An Exploratory Study of Directly Taught and Emergent Relations in an Elderly Woman...
  • Aggio NM, Ducatti M, & de Rose JC (2018). Cognition and language in dementia patients: Contributions from behavior analysis. Behavioral...
  • Arntzen E (2012). Training and testing parameters in formation of stimulus equivalence: Methodological issues. European Journal of Behavior...
  • Arntzen E, Dechsling A, & Fields L (2021). Expansion of arbitrary stimulus classes and function-transfer measured by sorting performances....
  • Arntzen E, Norbom A, & Fields L (2015). Sorting: An Alternative Measure of Class Formation? The Psychological Record, 65, 615-625. Doi:10.1007/s40732-015-0132-5
  • Brogård-Antonsen A & Arntzen E (2019). Analyzing conditions for recognizing pictures of family members in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease....
  • Cowley BJ, Green G, & Braunling-McMorrow D (1992). Using stimulus equivalence procedures to teach name-face matching to adults with brain...
  • Dickins DW (2015). A Simpler Route to Stimulus Equivalence? A Replication and Further Exploration of a “Simple Discrimination Training Procedure”...
  • Ducatti M & Schmidt A (2016). Learning conditional relations in elderly people with and without neurocognitive disorders. Psychology &...
  • Dymond S & Rehfeldt RA (2001). Supplemental measures of derived stimulus relations. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin,...
  • Fienup DM & Dixon MR (2006). Acquisition and Maintenance of Visual-Visual and Visual-Olfactory Equivalence Classes. European Journal of...
  • Folstein MF, Folstein SE, & McHugh PR (1975). “Mini-mental state”. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for...
  • Huziwara EM, Silva MJM, Perez WF, & Tomanari GY (2015). Analyzing the Stimulus Control Acquisition in Simple Discrimination Tasks through...
  • Lipsitt LP (1961). Simultaneous and successive discrimination learning in children. Child Development, 32, 337-347.
  • Mitchell AJ (2017). The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): Update on its Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Utility for Cognitive Disorders....
  • Mohr JP, Sidman M, Stoddard LT, Leicester J, & Rosenberger PM (1974). Evolution of the deficit in total aphasia. Neurology, 23, 12, 1302-1312....
  • Mundy ME, Honey RC, & Dwyer DM (2007). Simultaneous presentation of similar stimuli produces perceptual learning in human picture processing....
  • Prince M, Bryce R, Albanese E, Wimo A, Ribeiro W, & Ferri CP (2013). The global prevalence of dementia: A systematic review and metaanalysis....
  • Sidman M (1971). The behavioral analysis of aphasia. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 8, 413-422. Doi: 10.1016/0022- 3956(71)90034-3
  • Sidman M (2013). Techniques for describing and measuring behavioral changes in alzheimer’s patients. European Journal of Behavior Analysis,...
  • Sidman M & Tailby W (1982). Conditional discrimination vs. matching to sample: an expansion of the testing paradigm. Journal of the Experimental...
  • Sigurðardóttir ZG, Mackay HA, & Green G (2012). Stimulus equivalence, generalization, and contextual stimulus control in verbal classes....
  • Steingrimsdottir HS & Arntzen E (2014). Discrimination learning in adults with neurocognitive disorders. Behavioral Interventions, 29,...
  • Steingrimsdottir HS, Brogård-Antonsen A, Boye-Hansen S, Aasland HG, & Arntzen E (2021). Social Significant Stimuli in Training of conditional...
  • Trahan MA, Kahng SW, Fisher AB, & Hausman NL (2011). Behavior-analytic research on dementia in older adults. Journal of Applied Behavior...