Equivalence Classes: Effects of the Redundant Element and the Order of Tests

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Marília Santana
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Melo, Raquel Maria de, Hanna, Elenice Seixas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/19485
• topic: Ordem dos testes; Topografia de controle de estímulos; Elemento redundante; Discriminação simples simultânea; Classes de equivalência; Stimulus control topography; Redundant element; Simple discrimination with compound stimulus; Training and test of class equivalence order

It was investigated the effect of the order of testing on equivalence class formation and stimulus control after teaching simple discriminations that included a redundant element (black spot). Nineteen college students were exposed to conditional relations training, as also testing of equivalence classes and stimulus control with mask. The order of testing variedin two experimental phases: (1) tests alternated with training, and (2) tests after training. A black spot was included in one of the compound stimuli. More accurate performances occurred when tests were conducted after training. Higher scores were related to control by S + and the S- and lower scores to multiple controls that included the black spot. These results suggest that the order of testing interact with the effects of the redundant element.