In three experiments, 165 adult participants were trained on 12 baseline conditional
discriminations and tested for the formation of three 5‐member equivalence classes (A➔ B➔ …

Using the simultaneous protocol, 20 college students attempted forming three 5-member
equivalence classes (A→ B→ C→ D→ E). In Group 1, baseline training was followed serially …

Behavior analysis and neuroscience are disciplines in their own right but are united in that
both are subfields of a common overarching field—biology. What most fundamentally unites …

Stimulus meaningfulness has been defined by its hedonic valence, denotative (definitional)
and connotative (evaluative) properties, and its influence on forming categories called …

The present experiment investigated the effects of preliminary training with pictorial stimuli
on the subsequent formation of three 5‐member equivalence classes (A➔ B➔ C➔ D➔ E) in …

Abstract “Yield,” the percentage of participants in a group who form a set of equivalence
classes, has been used very broadly to identify the effect of different training protocols on …

The emergence of transitive relations between stimuli that had never appeared together is a
key process underlying concept formation. An unresolved theoretical issue with respect to …

Equivalence classes are typically established by teaching arbitrary conditional
discriminations with discrete single stimuli as samples and comparisons. The current study …

The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a go/no‐go successive matching‐to‐sample
procedure (S‐MTS) to establish auditory–visual equivalence classes with college students …

Previous experiments have investigated the function of using pictures or meaningful stimuli
on equivalence class formation. For example, when attempting to form three 5-member …