Abstract:
:Where do equivalence relations come from? One possible answer is that they arise directly from the reinforcement contingency. That is to say, a reinforcement contingency produces two types of outcome: (a) 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, or n-term units of analysis that are known, respectively, as operant reinforcement, simple discrimination, conditional discrimination, second-order conditional discrimination, and so on; and (b) equivalence relations that consist of ordered pairs of all positive elements that participate in the contingency. This conception of the origin of equivalence relations leads to a number of new and verifiable ways of conceptualizing equivalence relations and, more generally, the stimulus control of operant behavior. The theory is also capable of experimental disproof.
journal_name
J Exp Anal Behavjournal_title
Journal of the experimental analysis of behaviorauthors
Sidman Mdoi
10.1901/jeab.2000.74-127subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-07-01 00:00:00pages
127-46issue
1eissn
0022-5002issn
1938-3711journal_volume
74pub_type
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