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- Title
ALL STIMULI ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS: MEASURING RELATIONAL PREFERENCES WITHIN AN EQUIVALENCE CLASS.
- Authors
Doran, Erica; Fields, Lanny
- Abstract
Two experiments used post-class formation within-class relational assessment test performances to evaluate whether participants demonstrated preference for certain members of an equivalence class based on the type of relation that existed between class members. In Experiment 1, two 5-node 7-member equivalence classes, consisting entirely of nonsense syllables, were established using the simultaneous protocol. Only 1 of the 6 participants in Experiment 1 formed classes. After class formation, the effects of the different relations between stimuli were evaluated using within-class relational assessment tests, and the 1 participant showed an absolute preference for transitive over equivalence relations, and for baseline over symmetrical relations. Experiment 2 was identical to Experiment 1, except that one of the nonsense syllable stimuli in each class was replaced by a pictorial stimulus. Under these conditions, classes were formed by 5 of 13 participants. During the relational assessment tests, the 5 participants who formed classes demonstrated almost exclusive preferences for transitive relations over equivalence relations and for trained baseline relations over symmetrical relations. Thus, this research demonstrates that the members of equivalence classes are differentially related to each other based on relational type.
- Subjects
EQUIVALENCE classes (Set theory); NONSENSE syllables (Psychology); CLASS formation; SET theory; PSYCHOLOGY of college students
- Publication
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012, Vol 98, Issue 3, p243
- ISSN
0022-5002
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1901/jeab.2012.98-243