Derived Stimulus-Response and Stimulus-Stimulus Relations in Children and Adults: Assessing Training Order Effects

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 130-154

  Smeets, Paul M ^a   Barnes Holmes, Dermot ^b   Roche, Bryan ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Generalized conditional responding; Mediated generalization; Stimulus equivalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; TEACHING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TEACHING;

EID: 0035259445     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2563     Document Type: Article

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