Which Baer, Wolf, and Risley dimension best describes the scenario of practicing a skill across settings with multiple caregivers and checking maintenance?

• A. Applied
• B. Technological
• C. Behavioral
• D. Generality

Answer: (D)

Generalization focuses on whether the skill occurs in settings beyond training, with different people, and over time. In this scenario, practicing the skill across various settings with multiple caregivers shows the behavior transferring across different environments and people, and checking maintenance addresses whether it persists over time. That combination—across settings and with different agents, plus maintenance—is exactly what the generality dimension captures. The other dimensions aren’t as central here: while behavior itself is measured and the procedures could be described clearly, the emphasis is on the skill’s spread and persistence across contexts, which is generalization.