Effects of select and reject control on equivalence class formation and transfer of function

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
William F PerezManish Vaidya

Abstract

The present study used a single-subject design to evaluate the effects of select or reject control on equivalence class formation and transfer of function. Adults were exposed to a matching-to-sample task with observing requirements (MTS-OR) in order to bias the establishment of sample/S+ (select) or sample/S- (reject) relations. In Experiment 1, four sets of baseline conditional relations were taught-two under reject control (A1B2C1, A2B1C2) and two under select control (D1E1F1, D2E2F2). Participants were tested for transitivity, symmetry, equivalence and reflexivity. They also learned a simple discrimination involving one of the stimuli from the equivalence classes and were tested for the transfer of the discriminative function. In general, participants performed with high accuracy on all equivalence-related probes as well as the transfer of function probes under select control. Under reject control, participants had high scores only on the symmetry test; transfer of function was attributed to stimuli programmed as S-. In Experiment 2, the equivalence class under reject control was expanded to four members (A1B2C1D2; A2B1C2D1). Participants had high scores only on symmetry and on transitivity and equivalence tests involving t...Continue Reading

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May 1, 2019·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·Elberto A Plazas
May 5, 2020·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·William F PerezManish Vaidya
Dec 14, 2018·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·Daniela S CanovasCaio F Miguel
Dec 2, 2020·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·William F PerezChristian Vichi
Jan 21, 2021·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·Colin HarteJulio C de Rose
Feb 20, 2021·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·Vanessa Ayres-Pereira, Erik Arntzen
Oct 6, 2021·Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·Érika Larissa de Oliveira JiménezWilliam J McIlvane

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