The role of intraverbal bidirectional naming in the establishment of comparative relations

The purpose of the current study was to extend the research on the possible role of verbal mediation in the establishment of comparative relations. We conducted four experiments in which 14 participants received conditional discrimination training with nonarbitrary and arbitrary stimuli, followed by...

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Published in:Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 2024-09, Vol.122 (2), p.158-181
Main Authors: Luoma, Shannon M., Miguel, Caio F., LaFrance, Danielle L., Lee, Vanessa N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
bidirectional naming
comparative relations
Discrimination Learning
Female
Humans
Male
Problem Solving
relational frames
Verbal Behavior
Young Adult
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Summary:The purpose of the current study was to extend the research on the possible role of verbal mediation in the establishment of comparative relations. We conducted four experiments in which 14 participants received conditional discrimination training with nonarbitrary and arbitrary stimuli, followed by derived comparative and transformation of function tests. Participants learned to select the smallest or biggest comparison across multiple exemplars in the presence of samples. Next, participants learned to select arbitrary comparisons in the presence of contextual cues to establish a size ranking among comparisons. To assess verbal mediation during mutual and combinatorial entailment tests, participants were instructed to talk out loud. When they failed to perform correctly during derived relations tests, participants were trained to tact and intraverbally relate stimuli. The results suggest that relational training alone was not sufficient to establish comparative relations and that adult participants engaged in problem solving consistent with intraverbal bidirectional naming during emergent relations tests.
ISSN:0022-5002
1938-3711
1938-3711
DOI:10.1002/jeab.4207