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Smeets, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Investigated simultaneous occurrence of emergent stimulus-response relations (functional equivalence) and stimulus-stimulus relations (stimulus equivalence). Trained 4- and 5-year olds to emit specified responses to pairs of stimuli in one setting (original training) and to emit other responses to one member of each pair in another setting…
Descriptors: Children, Conditioning, Patterned Responses, Responses
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Smeets, Paul M.; Barnes, Dermot – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Children and adults were trained and tested on formation of novel simple discriminations and conditional stimulus relations. Subjects who formed these sets were trained and tested on formation of stimulus equivalence classes. A modest majority of children matched directly paired stimuli; a few matched indirectly paired stimuli. All normal adults…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
Mostofsky, David I.; Shurtleff, Donald A. – J Gen Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Conditioning, Learning, Learning Processes
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Shepard, Roger N. – Science, 1987
Describes the establishment of a psychological space for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli with the probability that a response learned for a stimulus will generalize to the other. (Author/TW)
Descriptors: College Science, Conditioning, Generalization, Higher Education