What is it about?
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.
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Why is it important?
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.
Perspectives
This research experimentally shows the differential effect of training with selection responses (conditional discriminations) and verbal responses (simple discriminations). It derives the importance of teaching simple discriminations to groups with verbal limitations, since it produces a greater expansion and generativity of verbal behavior (language).
Francisco J Alós Cívico
Universidad de Cordoba
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This page is a summary of: Emergent Relations with Compound Stimuli in Conditional and Simple Discriminations: an Experimental Application in Children, The Psychological Record, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s40732-015-0123-6.
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