Ejemplares Múltiples En La Elección De Autocontrol Generalizada En Niños Con Tdah

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more likely to choose impatiently than controls. Delay fading with an alternative activity, signaling the delay, or self-instruction, have been shown to increase self-control choice, but we know little about their generalization. The present study evaluated the effect of multiple-exemplar training on the generalization of self-control choice across settings, behaviors, and time, in two, five-year-old boys with ADHD. We used a multiple-baseline-across-settings design. We trained self-control choice across three settings, and we assessed post-training generalization in the fourth, novel setting. We accommodated each setting with different kinds of exemplars: Reinforcers, discriminative stimuli, researchers, and conditions, during the delay of the larger reinforcer. Children showed self-control choice in the novel setting for more than 80% and maintained more than 60% at two-month follow-up. The multiple-exemplar training led ADHD children to generalize self-control choice. Future research should incorporate intra-category exemplar training and natural settings demonstrations.