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The Removal and Restoration of Stimulus Control1

Year: 1971

Type: article

Abstract: When a well-learned circle versus ellipse discrimination was made impossibly difficult for the subjects (rhesus monkeys), the controlling stimulus-response topographies were replaced by competing topographies. The identification of two training conditions sufficient to reinstate the original discrimination permitted the following inferences: the original controlling topography had merely decreased in probability of occurrence, whereas the "strength" of the stimulus-response relation remained unchanged; discriminations along the apparently continuous circle-ellipse dimension actually involved several distinct stimulus-control topographies.

Source: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1971.16-143

Authors: L. T. Stoddard, Murray Sidman

Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2010068152

FWCI: 0.919

Cites: 14

Cited by: 34

Related to: 10