Six chronic, regressed schizophrenic Ss who had been identified as “poor” generalizers in an earlier operant conditioning experiment designed to foster interaction behavior, e.g., other-oriented speech, were Ss. By partially reinstating the cues from the original operant conditioning situation, generalization of interaction behavior appeared in five of the six Ss.
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