SIMPLE SIMULTANEOUS DISCRIMINATION AND RELATIONAL RESPONDING

Authors

  • Márcio Borges Moreira Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás e Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília
  • João Claudio Todorov Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás e Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília
  • Lauro Eugênio Guimarães Nalini Pontíficia Universidade Católica de Goiás

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18542/rebac.v4i1.847

Abstract

The present work presents a discriminative training procedure, different from existing ones, used to study relational responding and the emergence of stimulus relations.. Participants were 17 Psychology undergraduate students and 16 undergraduate students and one professor of a Telecommunications Engineering course. Participants were exposed to simple simultaneous discrimination training with compound stimuli. After training, stimuli were decomposed and new stimulus relations were tested in a matching-to-sample procedure. Ten Engineering students and two Psychology students reached training learning criteria. Among these 12 participants, seven showed the emergence of new stimulus relations in tests. The training procedure seems to be a viable alternative for the study of relational responding and the emergence of stimulus relations. These results suggest the need for a conceptual revision of simple and conditional discrimination and also suggest that participants’ pre-experimental history may be an important variable in studies of symbolic behavior.Keywords: simple simultaneous discrimination, relational responding, stimuli relations emergency

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Published

2012-03-26

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2008)

Section

Research Articles

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