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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Stimulus Control
  • Equivalence Relations

Background:

  • Contextual control is defined by a five-term contingency where stimuli exert conditional control over discriminations.
  • It also allows stimuli to belong to multiple equivalence classes without merging.
  • Matching-to-sample procedures are typically used to study contextual control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the go/no-go procedure with compound stimuli can create equivalence classes that share stimuli.
  • To determine if contextual stimulus functions are necessary for establishing such shared-stimulus equivalence classes.

Main Methods:

  • Six undergraduate students participated in a study using a go/no-go procedure with compound stimuli.
  • Training involved reinforcing responses to specific compound stimuli (e.g., AC, BD, XY) and non-reinforcing others.
  • Tests assessed the formation of four equivalence classes with shared stimuli using novel compound stimuli.

Main Results:

  • Four out of six participants demonstrated the formation of four distinct equivalence classes that shared stimuli.
  • The go/no-go procedure successfully established these shared-stimulus equivalence classes.
  • The results suggest that explicit contextual stimulus functions were not required for class formation.

Conclusions:

  • The go/no-go procedure can establish equivalence classes that share stimuli, fulfilling one aspect of contextual control definition.
  • These findings indicate that establishing specific contextual stimulus functions is not a prerequisite for shared-stimulus equivalence classes.
  • The results challenge the necessity of the five-term contingency in defining contextual control for shared-stimulus classes.