The present study addressed the acquisition of intraverbals under conditional stimulus control. Six typically developing children ages 6 - 7 were first taught two A-B (i.e., state to city) and two B-C (i.e., city to park) intraverbals, then probed on 12 A-B, B-C, B-A, C-B, A-C, and C-A intraverbals. If novel intraverbal relations did not emerge, each participant received either category or exemplar training. In category training, participants were trained to respond with "state", "city", or "park" given names of states, cities, and parks. In exemplar training, participants were trained to name some examples of states, cities, and parks. If novel intraverbals did not emerge, the participant was exposed to the other training condition. Results showed that five out of the six participants' demonstrated emergence of all novel relations. These results provide evidence and support existing literature demonstrating that training simple discriminations facilitates acquisition of conditional discriminations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04222010-084232 |
| Date | 22 April 2010 |
| Creators | Carp, Charlotte Lynn |
| Contributors | Anna L. Petursdottir |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/octet-stream |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04222010-084232/ |
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