Sequence formation: conceptual and methodological aspects

Authors

  • Grauben José Alves de Assis Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Marcelo Quintino Galvão Baptista Universidade Federal do Pará
  • Ana Letícia Moraes Nunes Universidade Federal do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v13i2.11960

Keywords:

sequence production, chaining, humans

Abstract

The idea of stimulus control can be applied to the analysis of new behavior, which derives from contingencies that establishes the production of sequences, in which order has an important function. The present study had as its objective to point out some behavioral descriptions about sequential responding, as suggested by previous authors. It presents some conceptual aspects about the relation between stimulus control topography and relational learning; the kinds of sequences; and the definition of sequences based on mathematical properties and other possible sources of control. The studies we reviewed have in common the chaining training or stimulus overlapping, which constitutes the baseline for the exposure to the transitivity, connectivity and ordinal classes formation tests. We conclude that in sequential responding, order as a variable is defined by the dimensions or characteristics of stimuli to which it is related – among them, the length of the sequence and temporality. Furthermore, it refers to the relation between antecedent and consequent events.

 

Keywords: sequence production; chaining; humans.

Author Biography

Grauben José Alves de Assis, Universidade Federal do Pará

Departamento de Psicologia Experimental

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de Assis, G. J. A., Baptista, M. Q. G., & Nunes, A. L. M. (2009). Sequence formation: conceptual and methodological aspects. Interação Em Psicologia, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v13i2.11960

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2009)

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