Effect of Equivalent Stimulus Class Formation and Facilitation Procedures on the Emergence of Analogy

• Autor(a) principal: Marcelino, Madeleine Reinert
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Arantes, Ana, Elias, Nassim Chamel
• 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/23502
• topic: Stimulus equivalence, Analogical reasoning, Facilitation procedure, Instructions; Equivalência de estímulos, Raciocínio analógico, Procedimento de facilitação, Instruções

The goals were to verify the effects of the formation of equivalent stimulus classes and two facilitation procedures on the emergence of analogy responses and to compare the results obtained in the analogy tests according to the facilitation procedure and the provision of instruction. Participants were 30 undergraduate students. AB and AC relations were taught with abstract pictures, then symmetry, transitivity, and analogy relations were tested. Participants who did not show these relations were exposed to the facilitation procedures. Twelve participants responded by analogy before the facilitation procedure, five of eight (62%) after Facilitation 1 and three of ten (33%) after Facilitation 2. Of the seven participants exposed to the instruction, six responded by analogy. Class formation was not enough for the emergence of analogy responses, and some participants might have responded to the Analogy Test under the control of only some aspects of the stimulus pairs.