The experimenter asked if documented equivalence class membership would influence the development of shared discriminative stimulus function established through simple successive discrimination training. In Experiment 1, equivalence classes were established with two sets of 9 stimuli. Common stimulus functions were then trained within or across the equivalence classes. Greater acquisition rates of the simple discriminations with stimuli drawn from within the equivalence classes were observed. In Experiment 2, a third stimulus set was added with which no equivalence relations were explicitly trained. The findings of Experiment 1 were replicated, but the Set 3 results were inconsistent across subjects. The outcomes of the two experiments demonstrate that equivalence classes have an effect on other behavioral relations which requires further investigation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc12087 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Brackney, Ryan |
| Contributors | Vaidya, Manish, Smith, Richard G. (Richard Gordon), 1956-, Ingvarsson, Einar T. |
| 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, Brackney, Ryan, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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