Matching unrelated stimuli with same discriminative functions: Training order effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-226

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

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adults; Discriminative functions; Stimulus equivalence; Training order; Transfer

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0037473777     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00124-9     Document Type: Article

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