 All right, we're back with first. Well my response generalization specifically but generalization in general Anyway, here we go Oftentimes what we're trying to do is Train somebody to do something right so sometimes it's training a new response We for that we're talking about shaping and chaining and all those things other times It's just getting an old response to occur in the presence of a new stimulus So in other words something you're already doing but we want to do it in a new context or in a new situation So when we're talking about that type of stuff, we're talking about generalization So responding differently to stimuli or responding in different ways to the same stimuli All right, or responding in the same way to different stimuli all sorts of things there We want this that typically we want whatever we're training you to do to happen in more than one Setting right we call that the training setting so we're going to have to specifically program for that So in order to program for that we need to do several things We need to talk about the training situation and the target situation So if I want you to be able to perform a particular task like let's say counting I can teach you how to count in one setting, but I probably want to try that with multiple stimuli All right, so I may want to teach you how to count with You know little pieces of paper I may want to teach you how to count with beans or blocks or cars or all sorts of things But the idea is is that I'm trying to get you to Respond different respond the same way to multiple stimuli to be able to count When we're thinking about behavioral issues though, let's say somebody's learned to do something in one situation Right now we want them to be able to do that in their natural environment So we need to train as closely as possible to that target situation and we'll talk a little bit about that So the first thing we want to look at is stimulus generalization Again, this is really part of stimulus control. It's kind of an extension of that chapter and we want a particular behavior to occur in the presence of multiple stimuli rather than just the same old one All right, so with stimulus generalization, we're going to say all right We're going to train you on this one discriminative stimulus here and that's going to produce a desired response Let's say being polite But we also want you to be polite in multiple settings. We don't just want you to be polite at home We want you to be polite in the public and we want you to be polite with other family members Or at extended families houses or something like that So the idea is we may have to actually go out and train in those new settings Or we need to figure out ways to program that to actually happen for you to get reinforced in those environments It's not necessarily natural for behavior automatically to occur for behavior that you've learned to automatically occur in new environments That's just the reality of it. It's very behaviors very sensitive to context The other type of thing we want to think about is response generalization One response is always under stimulus control, right? So you training discriminative produces a training worse than that particular response So what we then need to do is well what we may want to do is train additional responses to that same discriminative stimulus So that's response generalization So the interesting thing to remember here is that we're not talking about training a new response for this additional response component here in these boxes what we're talking about is Taking a behavior that you already have in other words a behavior that's already in your repertoire and Connecting it to a new stimulus So that way well, you know again, it's it's not a new behavior It's just getting you to perform that behavior in a new setting now because you're being reinforced for one behavior We're just trying to connect that reinforcers with multiple behaviors. That's essentially what we're doing here