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Conditional stimulus control of childrens' sequence production.

R Stromer1, H A Mackay

  • 1Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Northeastern University, Waltham, MA 02254.

Psychological Reports
|June 1, 1992
PubMed
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Children learned to associate visual stimuli into ordered sequences. This study demonstrates how conditional discrimination training can establish stimulus classes, influencing sequence production and generalization.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Learning and Memory

Background:

  • Understanding how humans form abstract concepts is crucial for cognitive development research.
  • Conditional discrimination is a key learning process involving stimulus control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the formation of stimulus classes in children through conditional discrimination.
  • To examine the generalization of learned sequences to novel sets of stimuli.

Main Methods:

  • Children were trained on two distinct sequences (A and B) of visual stimuli.
  • Conditional discrimination training involved associating printed words with the forward and reverse order of Sequence A.
  • Probe sessions assessed the effect of the trained words on Sequence B and mixed sequences.

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Main Results:

  • Five out of six children generalized conditional control to Sequence B and its reversal.
  • Four children demonstrated the ability to perform mixed sequences (e.g., A1-B2-A3-B4-A5) under word control.
  • These results suggest the formation of stimulus classes based on sequential position.

Conclusions:

  • Conditional discrimination training can lead to the formation of abstract stimulus classes in children.
  • Stimulus class formation facilitates generalization of learned conditional relations.
  • This study provides evidence for higher-order learning and conceptualization in typically developing children.