Given that children and adolescents with ASD can show difficulty in
generalising learned skills to new contexts (Bellini et al. 2007), it is important to consider whether schools might be an effective context for the delivery of CBT interventions.
The standard answer is that our big, plastic brains have a uniquely flexible and
generalised learning capacity.
Not exact matches
Constructive
learning usually begins with a network which has a single node — the part equivalent to a neuron in the brain — which
generalises badly on its own.
Having seen how sharply any two African countries can contrast, we had
learnt to distrust the habit of
generalising about the continent from one incident in a single country.
«To go beyond this we use modern machine -
learning methods where you don't necessarily know how a computer has made a decision about a particular sound, but by training it, which means showing it lots of previous examples, we can encourage a computer algorithm to
generalise from those.»
«It's dangerous to
generalise,» says Professor Steve Dinham, Research Director of the Teaching,
Learning and Leadership research program at the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Typically, students view
learning as remembering facts, terms and definitions, but it's actually the case that problem - based
learning builds their skills in doing that because it teaches students to develop thinking skills such as the ability to evaluate,
generalise, hypothesise, synthesise and analyse information rather than simply recall it.
There is an inbuilt default in the work we're drawing on towards French and Spanish language
learning, though we will take care to
generalise away from specific languages wherever possible.
By applying this to various situations, your dog will
learn to
generalise that she has to stay calm for everything.
Hi Nick,
learning in dogs is not easily
generalised.
Parents were trained in fortnightly sessions to monitor their child's behaviour, positively reinforce prosocial behaviour, punish effectively without being abusive, manage family crises and to
generalise what they
learnt.
Structured teaching of these competencies, and opportunities for students to practise and
generalise them in the classroom, school and wider community, are also crucial to implementing effective social and emotional
learning.
Students also
learn to re-frame setbacks as «temporary» rather than
generalising them to other areas of their life (i.e., catastrophising).
Students with severe to profound general
learning disabilities exhibit a wide and diverse range of characteristics, including a dependence on others to satisfy basic needs such as feeding and toileting, difficulties in mobility, problems with
generalising skills from one situation to another, significant delays in reaching developmental milestones and significant speech and / or communication difficulties.