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TRANSFER OF CONTEXTUAL STIMULUS FUNCTION VIA EQUIVALENCE CLASS DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Gatch Michael B.,
Osborne J. Grayson
Publication year - 1989
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 - 10.1901/jeab.1989.51-369
Subject(s) - transitive relation , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , reinforcement , equivalence class (music) , cognitive psychology , stimulus control , social psychology , neuroscience , mathematics , combinatorics , discrete mathematics , nicotine
In a conditional discrimination, 6 college students arranged six Cyrillic letters into groups of three based upon which of two additional Cyrillic letters (contextual stimuli) was present. All subjects demonstrated symmetry and transitivity within each class of equivalent stimuli. In a second conditional discrimination, two more Cyrillic letters were related to each contextual stimulus. Testing of symmetrical and transitive relations between the original contextual stimulus and the two new ones confirmed the development of two three‐member classes of contextual stimuli. Subsequent tests demonstrated that the new contextual stimuli controlled the previously trained sample‐comparison relations for all subjects.