Department of Psychology, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK.
J Exp Anal Behav. 2021 Mar;115(2):460-480. doi: 10.1002/jeab.671. Epub 2021 Jan 20.
Rule-governed behavior and derived stimulus relations have always shared strong conceptual links within behavior analysis. However, experimental analysis linking the two domains remains limited. The current study consisted of three experiments that aimed to continue to bridge this experimental gap. The first experiment sought to establish the extent to which a training version of the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) could be used to establish and successfully reverse experimentally established derived relations. The results suggested that the Training IRAP could successfully produce derived reversals. Experiments 2 and 3 explored the extent to which reversed derived relations would control rule-governed behavior when the contingencies for rule-following competed with the rule. In Experiment 2, the task contingencies were immediately in opposition to the (reversed) derived rule, and participants generally responded in accordance with the task contingencies, rather than the rule. In Experiment 3, the task contingencies were initially rule-consistent before a contingency reversal that later made them rule-inconsistent. Here evidence of rule-persistence emerged. The results of the research are considered within the context of a recent framework that has emerged out of RFT for analyzing the dynamics involved in derived relational responding.
在行为分析中，规则支配行为和衍生刺激关系一直有着很强的概念联系。然而，将这两个领域联系起来的实验分析仍然有限。本研究由三个实验组成，旨在继续弥合这一实验差距。第一个实验旨在确定内隐关系评估程序（IRAP）的训练版本在多大程度上可以用于建立和成功地反转实验建立的衍生关系。结果表明，训练 IRAP 可以成功地产生衍生反转。实验 2 和实验 3 探讨了当遵循规则的条件与规则竞争时，反转的衍生关系在多大程度上可以控制规则支配的行为。在实验 2 中，任务条件立即与（反转的）衍生规则相对立，参与者通常根据任务条件而不是规则做出反应。在实验 3 中，任务条件最初与规则一致，然后出现了一个使它们与规则不一致的条件反转。在这里，出现了规则坚持的证据。研究结果在 RFT 中出现的一个新框架的背景下进行了考虑，该框架用于分析衍生关系反应所涉及的动态。
