The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Adults Derive Arbitrary Sameness Relations through Trained Opposition.
Sidman's findings established equivalence relations as central to the behavioral analysis of language and cognition. Subsequent research dealt with other types of relations, such as difference, opposition, comparison, etc. However, some authors argue that evidence interpreted as the product of oppos...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 245 - 264 |
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