Verbal Establishing Stimuli: Testing the Motivative Effect of Stimuli in a Derived Relation with Consequences.

The present study examined whether the presentation of stimuli in equivalence relations with consequences increases the operant behavior that produces these consequences. In Experiment 1, both normal words and experimentally trained equivalence stimuli did so with young children. In Experiment 2, re...

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Published in:	Psychological Record Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 339 - 364
Main Authors:	Ju, Winifred C., Hayes, Steven C.
Format:	Article
Published:	Psychological Record Summer2008
Subjects:	Stimulus & response (Biology) Association of ideas Discrimination learning
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