Effects of prior conditional discrimination training, symmetry, transitivity, and equivalence testing on the emergence of new equivalence classes

Psychological Record

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 443-466

  Fields, Lanny ^a   Varelas, Antonios ^b   Reeve, Kenneth F ^b   Belanich, James ^b   Wadhwa, Priya ^b   Derosse, Pamela ^b   Rosen, Devorah ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034373939     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395365     Document Type: Article

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