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  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Verbal Behavior

Background:

  • Verbal behavior is multiply controlled by various stimuli, including self-stimulation.
  • Self-stimulation is crucial for verbal mediation and extending stimulus control over time.
  • Limited research exists on self-stimulation combined with multi-modal discriminative stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between self-stimulation patterns and different types of verbal discriminative stimuli (visual, auditory).
  • To assess how these stimuli influence verbal response accuracy in a recall task.

Main Methods:

  • A novel online task was developed to study verbal recall.
  • Participants typed digit sequences presented visually or auditorily.
  • Response products were either unmasked (visible feedback) or masked (no visible feedback) during initial typing.

Main Results:

  • No significant difference in recall accuracy was found between visual and auditory stimuli.
  • Recall accuracy was significantly higher when response products were unmasked compared to masked during the initial response phase.

Conclusions:

  • The visibility of response products (unmasked feedback) enhances verbal recall accuracy.
  • Self-stimulation's role in verbal mediation is supported, particularly when response feedback is apparent.