The establishiment of responses as discriminative or conditional stimulus and their participation on equivalent stimulus classes

Authors

  • Lilian Evelin dos Santos PUC-SP
  • Maria Amalia Pie Abib Andery PUC-SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v10i2.7688

Keywords:

self-discrimination, stimulus equivalence, transfer of stimulus function

Abstract

The present study aimed to verify if the establishment of response patterns would become evocative stimulus to other responses; to verify if they would establish themselves as members of the equivalence classes; and to verify if other stimulus of the stimulus classes would control response patterns as SD. The experimental procedure had four stages: (1) conditional-discrimination training and testing the emergence of equivalence classes with  meaningless figures (A1, B1, C1 and A2, B2, C2). (2) A self-discrimination training where two distinct response patterns (click/not click the mouse button) were established as conditional stimuli to the task of choosing between two stimulus (B1/B2), after being systematically paired with these stimulus. (3) Control test for the self-discriminative response: the response patterns would control the choice between two new stimulus of the equivalent classes (C1/C2)? (4) Control test of the equivalent stimulus classes over the responding patterns previously established. Among the 6 adults who completed the study, 4 had successful performances on the first Test, and 3 of them were also successfull on the second test. Results suggest that response patterns may acquire the behavioral function of stimulus and may become part of equivalent stimulus, and stimulus that are part of a stimulus class may share behavioral functions with these responses.

Keywords: self-discrimination; stimulus equivalence; transfer of stimulus function.

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dos Santos, L. E., & Andery, M. A. P. A. (2006). The establishiment of responses as discriminative or conditional stimulus and their participation on equivalent stimulus classes. Interação Em Psicologia, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v10i2.7688

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2006)

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