Establishing equivalence classes in preschool children with one-to-many and many-to-one training protocols

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-293

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

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Equivalence reversal; Preschool children; Stimulus equivalence classes; Stimulus familiarity; Training protocols

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; TRAINING;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADULT; CHILD; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 19344363519     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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