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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Derived Stimulus Relations"”.
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The Functional-Analytic Development of a Test for Behavioural History using the Concept of Derived Stimulus Relations
… testing format was developed by employing the Stimulus Equivalence paradigm (Sidman, 1971) and extending upon the previous work of Watt, Keenan, Barnes and Cairns (1991). Chapter 1 presents a review of the behavioural literature concerned with stimulus equivalence and derived stimulus …
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Why We Like What We Like: A Functional Approach to the Study of Human Evaluative Responding
… investigate whether the behavioural process of derived stimulus relating could facilitate a better understanding, prediction and influence of human likes and dislikes than that afforded by direct contingency accounts alone. Across a series of six experiments and in the absence of co-occurrence, …
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THE EFFECTS OF CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION INSTRUCTION AND VERBAL BEHAVIOR ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIERARCHICAL RESPONDING
… multiple exemplar instruction (MEI) to establish derived relational responding in accordance with hierarchical frames with school aged children. The first experiment used a multiple probe design to evaluate the effectiveness of MEI to teach participants to correctly respond to BELONGS TO and …
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A derived relations analysis of the aetiology, maintenance and treatment of fear and anxiety in human participants
… event in a person’s life. The processes of stimulus equivalence, derived relational responding and the derived transfer of functions effect in particular, were identified as having significant potential for the explanation of such “unconditioned” clinical anxiety. Whilst early studies dealt …
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The role of common stimulus functions in the development of equivalence classes.
College students were exposed to training designed to teach nine simple discriminations, such that sets of three arbitrary visual stimuli acquired common functions. For seven of eight participants, three 3-member contingency classes resulted. When the same stimuli were presented in a …