The paradigm of stimulus equivalence has been widely studied, with different populations. Several studies have investigated the variables that can influence the formation and maintenance of equivalent stimulus classes. ...

Understanding and using socially agreed codes is important for daily tasks. Considering the peculiarities of the learning process of symbolic behavior, which involves control by arbitrary relations among stimuli, it is ...

Research on stimulus class formation in very young children can bring important contributions to our current understanding of relations between verbal operants and concept formation repertoire. The present research was ...

The Study 1 investigated stimuli equivalence class expansion by two 5years-old visually impaired children. The stimuli were eigth auditory or tactil sets related to three animals: lion /elephant/ monkey. ...

This study aimed to determine whether the exclusive positive conditional relations established by the matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure are sufficient for equivalence class formation, or whether the negative conditional ...

The present study aimed to investigate whether preschool children would acquire arbitrary conditional discriminations between pictures of objects, whether they would form equivalence classes between the photos and if they ...

Behavior Analysis as behavioral study language and classification like behavior processes according to the Stimulus Control area. However, the mode and prerequisites for symbolic responses are not fully established. Hence, ...