Training and Test Distribution Effects on Stimulus Equivalence Class Formation Without Differential Consequences

• Autor(a) principal: Damim, Enira T. B.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Assis, Grauben J. A., Baptista, Marcelo Q. G.
• 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/17307
• topic: Equivalência de estímulos; Treino consistente; Antecipação dos testes; Conseqüência diferencial; Humanos; Stimulus equivalence; Consistency training; Test order; Differential consequences; Humans

Human subjects respond consistently, in the absence of differential consequences only after a long exposure toconditional relations training, and delayed tests. The objective of the present experiment was to verify the effects of thereduction of the delay of the contact of the subject with the tests, submitted to a sequence in that the training of each one of theconditional relationships was to be followed by tests of simpler emergent relationships to the most complex relationships. Fouruniversity students had the task of touching a sensitive screen without differential consequences for correct or incorrectresponses. The stability criterion was 97% of successes for block (36 trials). The subjects answered consistently in the training;they also presented consistency in all tests after a single re-exposure. Three months later, two subjects were re-tested forsymmetry and equivalence, and they performed consistently in all of those tests. Early testing, used in this experiment seemsto have facilitated the emergence of stimulus equivalences.