Department of Psychology, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Verbale, LLC., Sacramento, CA, USA.
J Exp Anal Behav. 2024 Sep;122(2):158-181. doi: 10.1002/jeab.4207. Epub 2024 Sep 2.
The purpose of the current study was to extend the research on the possible role of verbal mediation in the establishment of comparative relations. We conducted four experiments in which 14 participants received conditional discrimination training with nonarbitrary and arbitrary stimuli, followed by derived comparative and transformation of function tests. Participants learned to select the smallest or biggest comparison across multiple exemplars in the presence of abstract samples. Next, participants learned to select arbitrary comparisons in the presence of contextual cues to establish a size ranking among comparisons. To assess verbal mediation during mutual and combinatorial entailment tests, participants were instructed to talk out loud. When they failed to perform correctly during derived relations tests, participants were trained to tact and intraverbally relate stimuli. The results suggest that relational training alone was not sufficient to establish comparative relations and that adult participants engaged in problem solving consistent with intraverbal bidirectional naming during emergent relations tests.
本研究的目的是扩展关于言语中介在比较关系建立中可能作用的研究。我们进行了四项实验，其中 14 名参与者接受了非任意和任意刺激的条件辨别训练，然后进行了衍生的比较和功能转换测试。参与者学会了在多个示例中选择最小或最大的比较，同时存在抽象样本。接下来，参与者学会了在上下文线索存在的情况下选择任意比较，以建立比较之间的大小排序。为了在相互和组合蕴涵测试中评估言语中介，要求参与者大声说出答案。当他们在衍生关系测试中表现不正确时，参与者被训练用手势和内部言语来关联刺激。结果表明，仅进行关系训练不足以建立比较关系，并且在出现的关系测试中，成年参与者参与了解决问题，与内部言语双向命名一致。
