Doughty Adam H, Kastner Rebecca M, Bismark Bryan D
College of Charleston, Department of Psychology, 57 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29424, United States.
Behav Processes. 2011 Jan;86(1):152-5. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.08.006. Epub 2010 Aug 27.
Resurgence typically refers to the recovery of a previously reinforced response when a more recently reinforced response is extinguished. Under conditions of punishment, Wilson and Hayes (1996) observed the recovery of derived stimulus relations that never had been correlated with differential consequences. The present study systematically replicated the findings of Wilson and Hayes by observing the recovery of derived stimulus relations under extinction conditions and with an additional equivalence class. College students received arbitrary-matching-to-sample training in Phase 1 that resulted in four 4-member stimulus-equivalence classes. These derived relations were not correlated with differential consequences. In Phase 2, with the same stimuli, the students received training that resulted in four different 4-member stimulus-equivalence classes. After the emergence and reinforcement of the latter derived relations, their extinction generated the recurrence of the derived relations from Phase 1. The implications of these findings for conceptualizing resurgence are discussed.
反应恢复通常是指当一个更新近得到强化的反应被消退时，先前得到强化的反应的恢复。在惩罚条件下，威尔逊和海斯（1996年）观察到从未与不同后果相关联的派生刺激关系的恢复。本研究通过观察在消退条件下以及增加一个额外的等价类时派生刺激关系的恢复，系统地重复了威尔逊和海斯的研究结果。大学生在第一阶段接受了任意匹配样本训练，结果形成了四个由四名成员组成的刺激等价类。这些派生关系与不同后果无关。在第二阶段，使用相同的刺激，学生们接受训练，结果形成了四个不同的由四名成员组成的刺激等价类。在后者派生关系出现并得到强化后，它们的消退导致了第一阶段派生关系的重现。讨论了这些发现对反应恢复概念化的意义。
