College students were exposed to training designed to teach nine simple discriminations, such that sets of three arbitrary visual stimuli acquired common functions. For seven of eight participants, three 3-member contingency classes resulted. When the same stimuli were presented in a match-to-sample procedure under test conditions, four participants demonstrated equivalence-consistent responding, matching all stimuli from the same contingency class. Test performance for two participants was systematically controlled by other variables, and for a final participant was unsystematic. Exposure to a yes/no test yielded equivalence-consistent performance for one participant where the match-to-sample test had not. Implications for the treatment of equivalence as a unified, integrated phenomenon are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc4593 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | MacIver, Kirsty |
| Contributors | Vaidya, Manish, Glenn, Sigrid S., 1939-, Smith, Richard |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, MacIver, Kirsty, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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