ADVENTITIOUS CONTROL BY THE LOCATION OF COMPARISON STIMULI IN CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS

The transfer of social attributions within stimulus-equivalence classes comprised of photographs of children was examined. Five children (mean age: 4 yr., 2 mo.) were taught conditional discriminations sufficient for the emergence of two 3-member equivalence classes (A1-B1-C1 and A2-B2-C2). Social attributions were established by using two photographs to identify fictional children who could facilitate (B1) or prevent (B2) the participant's reinforcement on a computer game. Transfer of attribution was assessed by asking the participants questions regarding predicted social behaviors by children in all six photographs. One set of questions pertained explicitly to the response-options of the computer game; a second set referred to other prosocial and antisocial behaviors. Three children chose photographs in response to questions consistent with their experience with members B1 and B2 of the shared equivalence class when the questions pertained to the computer game. One subject also selected photographs in response to questions about predicted prosocial and antisocial behavior which reflected her experience with the B1 and B2 photographs.

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Effects of visual demonstration, verbal instructions, and prompted verbal descriptions on the performance of human subjects in conditional discriminations

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior ◽

10.1007/bf03392872 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 23-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Emilio Ribes-Iñesta ◽

Ma. Luisa Cepeda ◽

Hortencia Hickman ◽

Diana Moreno ◽

Eduardo Peñalosa

Keyword(s):

Human Subjects ◽

Conditional Discriminations ◽

Verbal Instructions ◽

Verbal Descriptions ◽

Visual Demonstration

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Use of Criterial Measures in Animal Discrimination Learning Experiments

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1968.23.3f.1335 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 23 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1335-1338 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. H. Winefield ◽

M. A. Jeeves

Keyword(s):

Discrimination Learning ◽

Task Difficulty ◽

Conditional Discriminations ◽

Animal Discrimination Learning ◽

And Performance ◽

High Level ◽

And Task

Findings from 2 experiments are described in which rats were overtrained on black/white and conditional discriminations. on the former, performance improved up to criterion and thereafter was maintained at a high level. on the latter, more difficult task, behaviour was less consistent and performance deteriorated with overtraining. A relation between elimination of position responses and task difficulty is suggested, and implications for the use of learning criteria are discussed.

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