Class Formation of Unrelated Stimuli with Same Discriminative Functions

European Journal of Behavior Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 7-19

  Carpentier, Franck ^a   Smeets, Paul M ^a   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

adults; Class formation; discriminative functions; transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012153495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2377729X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2002.11434200     Document Type: Article

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