Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom.
J Exp Anal Behav. 2010 Nov;94(3):353-63. doi: 10.1901/jeab.2010.94-353.
Contemporary behavior-analytic perspectives on gambling emphasize the impact of verbal relations, or derived relational responding and the transformation of stimulus functions, on the initiation and maintenance of gambling. Approached in this way, it is possible to undertake experimental analysis of the role of verbal/mediational variables in gambling behavior. The present study therefore sought to demonstrate the ways new stimuli could come to have functions relevant to gambling without those functions being trained directly. Following a successful derived-equivalence-relations test, a simulated board game established high- and low-roll functions for two concurrently presented dice labelled with members of the derived relations. During the test for derived transformation, children were reexposed to the board game with dice labelled with indirectly related stimuli. All participants except 1 who passed the equivalence relations test selected the die that was indirectly related to the trained high-roll die more often than the die that was indirectly related to low-roll die, despite the absence of differential outcomes. All participants except 3 also gave the derived high-roll die higher liking ratings than the derived low-roll die. The implications of the findings for behavior-analytic research on gambling and the development of verbally-based interventions for disordered gambling are discussed.
当代行为分析学对赌博的看法强调了言语关系或衍生关系反应以及刺激功能转变对赌博的发起和维持的影响。从这个角度来看，可以对言语/中介变量在赌博行为中的作用进行实验分析。因此，本研究旨在展示新刺激物如何在没有直接训练的情况下获得与赌博相关的功能。在成功完成衍生等价关系测试后，一个模拟棋盘游戏为两个同时呈现的骰子赋予了高滚和低滚功能，这些骰子上标记着衍生关系的成员。在衍生转换测试中，孩子们重新接触到有骰子的棋盘游戏，这些骰子上的标记与训练有高滚骰子间接相关的刺激物。除了 1 名通过等价关系测试的参与者外，所有参与者都选择了与训练有高滚骰子间接相关的骰子，而不是与低滚骰子间接相关的骰子，尽管没有差异结果。除了 3 名参与者外，所有参与者对衍生的高滚骰子的喜爱评分都高于衍生的低滚骰子。研究结果对赌博的行为分析研究以及针对障碍性赌博的基于言语的干预措施的发展具有重要意义。
