Transfer of functions among equivalent stimuli mediated by class-specific reinforcement.

• Grant number: 11/12847-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): May 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Júlio César Coelho de Rose
• Grantee: Marcelo Vitor da Silveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/57705-8 - Institute for the Study of Behavior, Cognition and Teaching, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/08332-8 - Transfer of functions through equivalent stimuli mediated by class-specific reinforcers, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Two experiments were designed to evaluate Transfer of functions mediated by classe-specific reinforcement. Experiment 1 will test for Transfer of functions mediated by class-specific reinforment in an arbitrary MTS training. Then, class-specific reinforcement will be applied in MTS procedure to establish arbitraty relations between pictures of human faces expressing emotions (Class A) and abstract stimuli (Classes B and C). The same reinforcement procedure will be applied in identity MTS comprising only arbitrary stimuli (Class B, C and D). After testing for Stimulus class membership, the acquired functions of the abstract stimuli from class D will be acessed by the semantic differential. Then the relations between stimuli from class D and the class-specific reinforcement will be rearranged in a new identity MTS training. The effects of these manipulations will be acessed both by tests stimulus classe membership and new evaluations of the acquired functions of stimulus from class D. Experiment 2 will test for Transfer of functions mediated by class-specific reinforment in an identity MTS training. The subjects will be submitted to two types of identity MTS training. In one of them the identity relations between arbitrary stimuli from classes B and C will be trained appling class-specific reinforcement. The following identity MTS training will comprise only stimuli from class A (the pictures of human faces expressing emotions) and the class-specific reinforcement. Emergent arbitrary matching will be acessed and then the acquired functions of stimuli from classes B and C will be evaluated throuhg the semantic differential. The relations between stimuli from class A and the class-specific reinforcement will be rearranged in a new identity MTS training. Finally, the effects of these manipulations will be acessed both by tests for emergent arbitrary matching and new evaluations of the acquired functions of stimulus from classes B and C.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SILVEIRA, MARCELO VITOR; AGGIO, NATALIA MARIA; CORTEZ, MARIELE DINIZ; BORTOLOTI, RENATO; RICO, VIVIANE VERDU; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. Maintenance of Equivalence Classes and Transfer of Functions: The Role of the Nature of Stimuli. PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, v. 66, n. 1, p. 65-74, MAR 2016. (10/08399-1, 11/12847-2, 12/21425-7)

SILVEIRA, MARCELO V.; MACKAY, HARRY A.; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. Measuring the ``transfer of meaning{''} through members of equivalence classes merged via a class-specific reinforcement procedure. LEARNING & BEHAVIOR, v. 46, n. 2, p. 157-170, JUN 2018. (11/12847-2, 15/08332-8)

SILVEIRA, MARCELO V.; MACKAY, HARRY A.; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. Measuring the "transfer of meaning" through members of equivalence classes merged via a class-specific reinforcement procedure. LEARNING & BEHAVIOR, v. 46, n. 2, p. 14-pg., 2018-06-01. (11/12847-2, 15/08332-8)

RIBEIRO, GIOVAN W.; SILVEIRA, MARCELO V.; MACKAY, HARRY A.; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. The Effect of Conditional Discrimination Reversals with SMTS and DMTS on Reorganization of Equivalence Classes. PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, v. 66, n. 4, p. 589-597, DEC 2016. (11/12847-2, 15/08332-8)

DUBE, WILLIAM V.; THOMPSON, BROOKS; SILVEIRA, MARCELO V.; NEVIN, JOHN A.. The Role of Contingencies and Stimuli in a Human Laboratory Model of Treatment of Problem Behavior. PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, v. 67, n. 4, p. 463-471, DEC 2017. (11/12847-2, 15/08332-8)