THE ROLE OF MULTIPLE-EXEMPLAR TRAINING AND NAMING IN ESTABLISHING DERIVED EQUIVALENCE IN AN INFANT

• Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 349 - 365
• Main Authors: Luciano, Carmen, Becerra, Inmaculada Gómez, Valverde, Miguel Rodríguez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2007; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc
• Subjects: Babies; Child Language; equivalence relations; Females; Generalization; Humans; Infant; Infant Behavior; Infants; Learning Processes; listener behavior; Listening; matching to sample; multiple-exemplar training; Names; Naming; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Receptive symmetry; Relational Frame Theory; Research Methodology; Responses; Speech Perception; Stimuli; Teaching - methods; Theory; Training; Verbal Behavior; Young Children

The conditions under which symmetry and equivalence relations develop are still controversial. This paper reports three experiments that attempt to analyze the impact of multiple‐exemplar training (MET) in receptive symmetry on the emergence of visual‐visual equivalence relations with a very young c...