A Simpler Route to Stimulus Equivalence? A Replication and Further Exploration of a 'Simple Discrimination Training Procedure' (Canovas, Debert and Pilgrim 2014).

In a recent paper in this journal, Canovas, Debert and Pilgrim ( The Psychological Record, 65(2), 337-346, ), in their second experiment, taught participants to make one key press to each of three simple visual stimuli and an alternative response to another three. They then trained two new key press...

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Publicado en:Psychological Record Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 637 - 648
Autor principal: Dickins, David
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2015
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        Functional equivalence
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