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The Role of Fluency in the Emergence of the Derived Relations of Stimulus Equivalence

Fluent component performances may be more readily available for recombination into more complex repertoires. This experiment considered the stimulus equivalence preparation as a laboratory analog for the co-adduction said to occur in generative instruction. Seven adults received minimum training on 18 conditional discriminations, components of 9 potential stimulus equivalence classes. Training was interrupted periodically with tests to determine whether fluency of original relations predicted e… more

Date: December 1995

Creator: Burkett, Leslie Stewart

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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The Effects of a Point Loss Contingency on Equivalence

The effects of point loss for symmetrical probe performances on other performances of an observed equivalence class, on the emergence of equivalence performances, and on performances in other contexts were examined. After training six conditional discriminations in three contexts, probes (symmetry, transitivity, symmetrical transitivity) were introduced in contexts 1 and 2. In context 3, only trained conditional discrimination trials were delivered. After demonstrations of equivalence in contex… more

Date: August 1995

Creator: Peuster, Andrea M. (Andrea Michelle)