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Horne, Pauline J.; Hughes, J. Carl; Lowe, C. Fergus – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Following pretraining with everyday objects, 14 children aged from 1 to 4 years were trained, for each of three pairs of different arbitrary wooden shapes (Set 1), to select one stimulus in response to the spoken word /zog/, and the other to /vek/. When given a test for the corresponding tacts ("zog" and "vek"), 10 children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Auditory Stimuli, Classification, Training
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Whelan, Robert; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Although the literature on reinforcement in behavioral psychology is extensive, few studies have examined the derived transformation of reinforcing functions in accordance with equivalence classes, and no published research has yet examined the derived transformation of consequential functions in accordance with nonequivalence relations. In the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cues, Reinforcement, Psychological Studies