How do organisms come to treat dissimilar events as if they are the same, particularly events
that have never been related directly? This question has long fascinated philosophers and …

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses some implications of stimulus control topography
(SCT) analysis for emergent behavior and stimulus classes. Equivalence outcomes result …

This study was conducted to assess the relative effectiveness of exclusion vs. selection
(modified trial-and-error) training in establishing auditory-visual conditional relations. The …

The effects of vocal intraverbal training and listener training on the emergence of untrained
categorization skills were evaluated. Five typically developing preschool children initially …

Experimental analyses of stimulus classes and stimulus equivalence are important for a
behavior analytic account of “emergent" behavior (ie, that which cannot be explained by …

Os procedimentos tipicamente usados em Análise Experimental do Comportamento para
estudar a formação de classes de equivalência podem constituir um modelo experimental …

The capacity to exhibit generalized sameness-difference judgments is a hallmark of
cognition that is regularly exhibited by humans. As yet, that capacity has not been well …

Controlling relations in the simple discrimination performances of capuchin monkeys (Cebus
apella) were studied in two experiments using a blank-comparison procedure. The main …

The present experiment investigated whether pigeons can show associative symmetry on a
two‐alternative matching‐to‐sample procedure. The procedure consisted of a within‐subject …

Children taught to sequence pairs of visual stimuli also performed additional sequences
without direct training. In Experiment 1, the children were trained to produce a six-stimulus …