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Establishing equivalence–equivalence analogical relations via tact and listener training
Author(s) -
Cordeiro Maria Clara,
Zhirnova Tatiana,
Miguel Caio F.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1002/jeab.652
Subject(s) - tact , analogy , psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , cognitive psychology , discriminative model , cognition , equivalence relation , developmental psychology , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pure mathematics , philosophy , neuroscience
We investigated the role of verbal behavior on the emergence of analogy‐type responding as measured via equivalence–equivalence relations. In Experiment 1, 8 college students learned to label arbitrary stimuli as, “vek,” “zog,” and “paf”, and in Experiment 2, 8 additional participants learned to select these stimuli when hearing their names in an auditory–visual matching‐to‐sample (MTS) task. Experimenters tested for the emergence of relational tacts (i.e., “same” and “different”) and equivalence–equivalence relations (analogy tests) via visual–visual MTS. Half of the participants were exposed to a think‐aloud procedure. Even though they all passed analogy tests while tacting stimuli relationally, only participants exposed to tact training (Experiment 1) did so without the need for remediation. The results of these experiments confirm that individual discriminative and relational control of stimuli established through verbal behavior training is sufficient to produce equivalence–equivalence analogical responding, advancing the analysis of complex cognitive (problem‐solving) phenomena.