Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Published In
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Keywords
Derived relations, Equivalence, Listener behavior, Matching-to-sample, Sorting
Abstract
The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a go/no-go successive matching-to-sample procedure (S-MTS) to establish auditory–visual equivalence classes with college students. A sample and a comparison were presented, one at a time, in the same location. During training, after an auditory stimulus was presented, a green box appeared in the center of the screen for participants to touch to produce the comparison. Touching the visual comparison that was related to the auditory sample (e.g., A1B1) produced points, while touching or refraining from touching an unrelated comparison (e.g., A1B2) produced no consequences. Following AB/AC training, participants were tested on untrained relations (i.e., BA/CA and BC/CB), as well as tacting and sorting. During BA/CA relations tests, after touching the visual sample, the auditory stimulus was presented along with a white box for participants to respond. During BC/CB relations tests, after touching the visual sample, a visual comparison appeared. Across 2 experiments, all participants met emergence criterion for untrained relations and for sorting. Additionally, 14 out of 24 participants tacted all visual stimuli correctly. Results suggest the auditory– visual S-MTS procedure is an effective alternative to simultaneous MTS for establishing conditional relations and auditory-visual equivalence classes.
Grant Information
The study was partially funded by the California Association for Behavior Analysis B.F. Skinner Research Award.
DOI
10.1002/jeab.641
Rights
© 2020 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Recommended Citation
Zhelezoglo, K.N., Hanson, R.J., Miguel, C.F. and Lionello‐DeNolf, K.M. (2021), The establishment of auditory–visual equivalence classes with a go/no‐go successive matching‐to‐sample procedure. Jrnl Exper Analysis Behavior, 115: 421-438. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.641.
Comments
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Zhelezoglo, K.N., Hanson, R.J., Miguel, C.F. and Lionello‐DeNolf, K.M. (2021), The establishment of auditory–visual equivalence classes with a go/no‐go successive matching‐to‐sample procedure. Jrnl Exper Analysis Behavior, 115: 421-438, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.641. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.