Emergent identity matching after successive matching training. II: Reflexivity or transitivity?

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-27

  Urcuioli, Peter J ^a   Swisher, Melissa ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity bias; Key peck; Pigeons; Reflexivity; Stimulus classes; Stimulus equivalence; Successive matching; Symmetrical versus asymmetrical training; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

ANIMALS; APTITUDE; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84858301663     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2012.97-5     Document Type: Article

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