Cariveau Tom, Brown Alexandria, Platt Delanie F, Ellington Paige
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403 USA.
Anal Verbal Behav. 2022 Sep 1;38(2):121-138. doi: 10.1007/s40616-022-00173-w. eCollection 2022 Dec.
Control by compound antecedent stimuli in verbal behavior represents an understudied but promising area of research. To date, reference to compound verbal stimulus control has generally only included descriptions of convergent multiple control. A sizeable experimental literature exists on the topic of compound stimulus control, which differs from convergent multiple control in that the stimulus elements often do not have a prior conditioning history (i.e., do not separately strengthen any response). The current study attempted to bridge the experimental and verbal behavior literatures by including a two-component antecedent verbal stimulus during intraverbal training for which neither component currently served an evocative function. Subsequent analyses of stimulus control suggested overshadowing by temporal location in the compound verbal stimulus and lack of emergence of the divergent intraverbal relation across all sets. Additional research is needed on compound stimulus control and verbal behavior researchers may be poised to answer several questions relevant to the experimental and verbal behavior literatures on the topic.
言语行为中复合先行刺激的控制是一个研究不足但颇具前景的研究领域。迄今为止，对复合言语刺激控制的提及通常仅包括对趋同多重控制的描述。关于复合刺激控制这一主题存在大量实验文献，它与趋同多重控制的不同之处在于刺激元素通常没有先前的条件作用历史（即不会分别强化任何反应）。本研究试图通过在言语内训练期间纳入一个双成分先行言语刺激来弥合实验文献和言语行为文献之间的差距，该刺激的两个成分目前均不具有唤起功能。随后对刺激控制的分析表明，在复合言语刺激中时间位置产生了遮蔽效应，并且在所有组中均未出现发散性言语内关系。关于复合刺激控制还需要进行更多研究，言语行为研究人员可能准备好回答与该主题的实验文献和言语行为文献相关的几个问题。
