A TEST OF SYMMETRY AND TRANSITIVITY IN THE CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION PERFORMANCES OF PIGEONS
| Autor: | Regina Lipkens, Pieter F. M. Kop, Werner Matthijs |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Stimulus equivalence
Transitive relation business.industry Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Articles Conditional discrimination Stimulus (physiology) Behavioral Neuroscience Equivalence relation Artificial intelligence Reinforcement business Psychology Stimulus control Equivalence (measure theory) Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 49:395-409 |
| ISSN: | 0022-5002 |
| DOI: | 10.1901/jeab.1988.49-395 |
| Popis: | In a matching-to-sample context, pigeons were taught two conditional discriminations according to one of three equivalence paradigms: train if A, then select B and if B, then select C; train if B, then A and if B, then C; or train if A, then B and if C, then B. Test trials without reinforcement revealed that the conditional relations did not satisfy the symmetrical and transitive properties of an equivalence relation. Apparently, only specific if... then relations were learned. Contrary to Kendall's (1983) findings, and probably as a consequence of procedural differences, none of the pigeons in the present experiment were observed to emit mediating behavior during the transitivity probe trials. The absence of symmetry and transitivity may be related to the individual stimuli not being reflexive. Behavioral techniques other than the commonly used matching-to-sample technique might better succeed in avoiding unintended stimulus control in the study of the formation of stimulus classes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Plný text