School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway.
J Exp Anal Behav. 2011 Sep;96(2):243-60. doi: 10.1901/jeab.2011.96-243.
Three experiments investigated responding consistent with transitive class containment, a feature of hierarchical classification. Experiment 1 replicated key components of a preliminary attempt to model hierarchical classification (Griffee & Dougher, 2002) and tested for responding consistent with transitive class containment. Only 2 out of 5 participants showed the expected pattern. Experiment 2 tested whether repeated exposures to the Experiment 1 protocol would give rise to the expected pattern more reliably. None of 3 novel participants demonstrated the pattern. In Experiment 3, physically similar stimuli used in Experiments 1 and 2 were replaced across testing cycles by arbitrary stimuli. Transitive-class-containment-consistent responding was observed in all 3 novel participants. Implications, limitations and future research are discussed.
三个实验研究了与传递类包含一致的反应，这是层次分类的一个特征。实验 1 复制了初步尝试模拟层次分类（Griffee & Dougher，2002）的关键组成部分，并测试了与传递类包含一致的反应。只有 5 名参与者中的 2 名表现出了预期的模式。实验 2 测试了是否重复暴露于实验 1 协议会更可靠地产生预期的模式。3 名新参与者均未表现出该模式。在实验 3 中，实验 1 和 2 中使用的物理相似的刺激在测试周期中被任意刺激所取代。3 名新参与者均表现出与传递类一致的反应。讨论了其意义、局限性和未来的研究。
