Relating relational networks: An initial experimental analysis

Autor(es)

Gomes, Caina T. ; Perez, William F. F. ; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot ; Harte, Colin

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR; v. 120, n. 2, p. 13-pg., 2023-05-12.

Resumo

Studying relating of relational networks is a complex and challenging task. The main objective of the present study was to demonstrate relating within and across relational networks based on same/opposite and bigger/smaller contextual cues and establish antecedent control. After nonarbitrary pretraining of the contextual cues, two nonsense stimulus classes were established based on comparative relations. Participants were trained to select stimuli from an array of options based on a symbolic rule that established a relation between two stimuli: one of Network 1 and one of Network 2. Training involved relating Network 1 to Network 2, and testing assessed relating Network 2 to Network 1. Seven of eight participants reached the mastery criterion in training and responded accordingly in test. In a final stage, reinforcing and punishing consequences were varied systematically in the presence of two novel stimuli and antecedent control was observed for all 7 participants. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 but using contextual cues taken from natural language, and Experiment 3 sought to understand the effects of pretraining relational responding using natural language. The mastery criteria were reached by four of seven participants in Experiment 2 and by all eight participants in Experiment 3. Future studies could develop and refine the methods employed here in analyzing the relating of relational networks, thus allowing for an increasingly sophisticated behavior-analytic account of human language and cognition. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 17/10037-0 - Transformação de funções emocionais em redes relacionais de comparação avaliada pelo priming semântico e potenciais relacionados a eventos (ERP)
• Beneficiário: João Henrique de Almeida
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 19/24210-0 - Investigação de processos comportamentais básicos na fusão e desfusão, com delineamentos de sujeito individual.
• Beneficiário: Colin Harte
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 08/57705-8 - Instituto de Estudos sobre Comportamento, Cognição e Ensino
• Beneficiário: Deisy das Graças de Souza
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 16/05935-6 - Transferência de função em classes de equivalência envolvendo expressões faciais de alegria e de medo
• Beneficiário: William Ferreira Perez
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular