Using the simultaneous protocol to study equivalence class formation: the facilitating effects of nodal number and size of previously established equivalence classes

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Established equivalence classes' size and number of nodes promote the formation of new equivalence classes under the simultaneous protocol. The total training time for college students who showed the emergence of classes has significantly reduced by additional pretraining time. Furthermore, the number of nodes and stimuli in pretrained classes influence total time savings. Further studies are recommended to determine if the same effects could be derived from the identified variables when used within-subject basis.

Training, Class size, Equivalency tests (Education), Equivalency tests

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Maintained nodal-distance effects in equivalence classes

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Experiments conducted on undergraduate students indicate that equivalence classes are formed by ordered sequential exposure to individual stimulus relations and within an equivalence class there is an inverse relationship between the stimulus and the nodal distance. The node is a stimulus that is obtained by training to at least two other stimuli and the number of nodes that link any two stimuli in a set of trained stimuli forms the nodal distance.

Conditioned response, Conditioned responses

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Pereceptual classes established with forced-choice primary generalization tests and transfer of function

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Ranges of fill-based stimuli appear to function as members of perceptual classes, with each class functioning as a transfer network for a new selection-based response. Many adjacent stimuli along the fill dimension in three tests proved to be discernable from each other.

United States, Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Human beings, Humans, Perception, Perception (Psychology), Psychological research

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