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Auditory Successive Conditional Discrimination and Auditory Stimulus Equivalence Classes

Year: 1993

Type: article

Abstract: This paper describes an experimental demonstration of stimulus equivalence classes consisting entirely of auditory stimuli. Stimuli were digitized arbitrary syllables (e.g., "cug," "vek") presented via microcomputer. Training and testing were conducted with a two-choice auditory successive conditional discrimination procedure. On each trial, auditory samples and comparisons were presented successively. As each comparison was presented, a response location (a rectangle) appeared on the computer screen. After all stimuli for a trial were presented, subjects selected one of the response locations. Six subjects acquired the conditional discrimination baseline, 4 subjects demonstrated the formation of three-member auditory equivalence classes resulting from sample-S+ relations, and 1 subject demonstrated equivalence classes resulting from sample-S- relations. Four subjects received additional training and subsequently demonstrated expansion of the three-member classes to four members each.

Source: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1993.59-103

Authors: William V. Dube, Gina Green, Richard W. Serna

Institution: Northeastern University

Language: English

Topic: Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Stimulus Control in Mental Retardation, G5024337205, PROGRAMMING DISCRIMINATION AND ONE-TRIAL LEARNING, G954158255