GUERRERO ALONSO, MARISOL, Alos, Francisco J. , Antonio Moriana, Juan
No
Psychol. Rec.
Article
Científica
3
2
0.761
0.398
01/09/2015
000358667600006
The aim of this research was to examine the effect of discrimination training in the emergence of six new stimuli relations: two conditional discriminations and four simple discriminations (intraverbals). To do so, two experiments comprising a pretest, a training session, and a posttest were performed with twelve typically developing children randomized into two groups of six participants each. Using four sets of stimuli, A, B, C, and D, the children were trained in different sets of stimuli relations between flags, countries, and capitals. The stimuli relations were A1B1-C1, A1B2-D1, A2B1-C2, and A2B2-D2. In the first experiment, participants received conditional discrimination training, while in the second they received simple discrimination training. Emergent relations were evaluated using simple and compound stimuli in both experiments. The results showed that conditional and simple discrimination procedures are equally effective in the training stage. However, differences were found in the number of emergent relations between the two training procedures. Children who were trained using the simple discriminations procedure produced a greater number of relations in which they were not explicitly trained.
Compound stimuli; Conditional discriminations; Intraverbals; Emergent relations; Children