Semantic priming and stimulus equivalence, article 1. Effect of pre-training with rapid responding on formation of equivalence classes, article 2

摘要

Article 1: Semantic priming and stimulus equivalence are research areas that study relations betweenstimuli. Semantic priming researchers are interested in the reaction time between a prime and afollowing target. The differences in reaction time are used to make inferences about how westore and retrieve knowledge. Stimulus equivalence researchers present their participants withconditional discrimination training with seemingly meaningless stimuli. After this training it ispossible to present a test for derived relations and the participants will respond correct to stimulithat never has been presented together. The purpose of this paper is first to give an introductionto semantic priming, and procedures used in semantic priming research. Secondly to presentstimulus equivalence, and procedures from stimulus equivalence research. The discussion willfocus on how procedures from semantic priming can be used in stimulus equivalence research.There will also be suggestions for further research in stimulus equivalence based on results fromunconscious priming. Article 2: The purpose of this article is to do a systematical replication of Tomanari, Sidman, Rubio, andDube (2006) and Arntzen and Haugland (2012) with a pre-training with identity matching wherelimited hold to sample and comparison are titrated to asymptotic level. The participants are giventhese levels and an additional 200 ms to establish conditionals discrimination with arbitrarystimuli. This was done with five participants and their limited hold to sample ranged from 400ms to 700 ms and for comparison from 800 ms to 1100 ms. None of the participants were able toestablish conditional discrimination to criteria, but there are evidence that two of them are able toestablish conditional discriminations with very little time to respond.