Training by Stimulus Consistency and Equivalence Without Differential Consequences

• Autor(a) principal: Quintino Galvão Baptista, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Alves de Assis, Grauben José
• 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/17249
• topic: Consistência; Equivalência de estímulos; Conseqüências diferenciais; Humanos; Consistency; Stimulus equivalence; Differential consequences; Humans

Four undergraduate students without previous history as subjects were exposed to training in the formation ofconditional relations AB, AC, and AD, without differential consequences, and to symmetry and equivalence tests. A threechoice simultaneous match-to-samplc procedure was used, with usual figures. For each model, a positive stimulus (S+) waspaired consistently in all trials, while two negative stimuli (S-) were paired alternatively. Criterion was met when the subject'sresponses were consistent on at least 35 of 36 trials in each block. The subjects responded consistently during training. Threesubjects performed consistently in the tests; one showed chance-level performance in symmetry tests, but responded consistentlyin equivalence tests. These results indicate that conditional relations formed by consistency, without differential reinforcement,were also equivalent relations, and indicate also that repetition of tests may be enough for teaching relations to be tested.