Thomas Jamiika, Fleming Will, Hayes Linda J
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, MS 296, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557 USA.
Anal Verbal Behav. 2024 Feb 12;40(2):177-215. doi: 10.1007/s40616-024-00201-x. eCollection 2024 Dec.
From an operant perspective, verbal behavior is multiply controlled by different sources of stimulation, including self-stimulation. Self-stimulation (i.e., responding with respect to one's own response products) is thought to be especially important for verbal mediation that temporally extends discriminative stimulus control. While previous research has examined the effects of self-stimulation across multiple dimensions of verbal responding, stimulus control of patterns of self-stimulation in conjunction with other patterns of discriminative stimuli of different modalities have arguably received less attention. The purpose of this study was to examine relations between patterns of self-stimulation and different types of verbal discriminative stimulation (i.e., visual and auditory) through differences in their contribution to verbal response accuracy in a recall task. Using a novel online task, participants completed a series of trials in which they (1) typed a 7-digit sequence of digits presented to them either visually or auditorily in which response products were (a) unmasked (typing different keys produced different characters) or (b) masked (typing different keys produced the same character) in the initial response phase, (2) engaged in an intervening activity in the distractor phase, and (3) retyped the same sequence of digits during the recall phase that was initially presented during the initial response phase. While no significant differences in accuracy of digits submitted during recall phases were observed with respect to visual and auditory verbal discriminative stimuli, the average total number of correct digits typed during recall phases was found to be higher when response products were unmasked in the initial response phase than when they were masked.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40616-024-00201-x.
从操作性条件反射的角度来看，言语行为受到不同刺激源的多重控制，包括自我刺激。自我刺激（即对自己的反应产物做出反应）被认为对于在时间上扩展辨别性刺激控制的言语中介尤为重要。虽然先前的研究已经考察了自我刺激在言语反应多个维度上的影响，但自我刺激模式与不同模态的其他辨别性刺激模式相结合时的刺激控制，可能较少受到关注。本研究的目的是通过自我刺激模式和不同类型的言语辨别性刺激（即视觉和听觉）在回忆任务中对言语反应准确性的贡献差异，来考察它们之间的关系。使用一项新颖的在线任务，参与者完成了一系列试验，在这些试验中，他们（1）输入呈现给他们的7位数字序列，这些数字序列以视觉或听觉方式呈现，其中反应产物在初始反应阶段要么是（a）未被掩盖的（按下不同键产生不同字符），要么是（b）被掩盖的（按下不同键产生相同字符），（2）在干扰阶段进行一项干扰活动，（3）在回忆阶段重新输入与初始反应阶段最初呈现的相同数字序列。虽然在回忆阶段提交的数字准确性方面，未观察到视觉和听觉言语辨别性刺激之间存在显著差异，但发现当初始反应阶段的反应产物未被掩盖时，回忆阶段输入的正确数字的平均总数高于被掩盖时。
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