Transfer of Aversive Respondent Elicitation in Accordance with Equivalence Relations

Autor/inn/en	Valverde, Miguel Rodriguez; Luciano, Carmen; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
Titel	Transfer of Aversive Respondent Elicitation in Accordance with Equivalence Relations
Quelle	In: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 92 (2009) 1, S.85-111 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-5002
DOI	10.1901/jeab.2009.92-85
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Conditioning; Experiments; Evaluation Methods; Measures (Individuals); Anxiety; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Behavior; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Erprobung; Messdaten; Angst; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	The present study investigates the transfer of aversively conditioned respondent elicitation through equivalence classes, using skin conductance as the measure of conditioning. The first experiment is an attempt to replicate Experiment 1 in Dougher, Augustson, Markham, Greenway, and Wulfert (1994), with different temporal parameters in the aversive conditioning procedure employed. Match-to-sample procedures were used to teach 17 participants two 4-member equivalence classes. Then, one member of one class was paired with electric shock and one member of the other class was presented without shock. The remaining stimuli from each class were presented in transfer tests. Unlike the findings in the original study, transfer of conditioning was not achieved. In Experiment 2, similar procedures were used with 30 participants, although several modifications were introduced (formation of five-member classes, direct conditioning with several elements of each class, random sequences of stimulus presentation in transfer tests, reversal in aversive conditioning contingencies). More than 80% of participants who had shown differential conditioning also showed the transfer of function effect. Moreover, this effect was replicated within subjects for 3 participants. This is the first demonstration of the transfer of aversive respondent elicitation through stimulus equivalence classes with the presentation of transfer test trials in random order. The latter prevents the possibility that transfer effects are an artefact of transfer test presentation order. (Contains 5 tables, 8 figures, and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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