4.20 Multiple Types of Stimulus Relations
But relations other than “equivalence” can also be trained and derived. Stimuli and events can be related in many different ways1,2,3,4.
A is the same as B
A is the opposite of B
A is different from B
A is better than B
A is the cause of B
A is less than B
A is far from B
A happened before B
A is part of B
A is above B
- Barnes-Holmes, D., Hayes, S. C., and Roche, B. (2001). The (not so) strange death of stimulus equivalence. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 2(1), 35-41.
- Dymond, S., and Barnes, D. (1995). A transformation of self-discrimination response functions in accordance with the arbitrarily applicable relations of sameness, more-than, and less-than. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 64, 163-184.
- Green, G., Stromer, R., and Mackay, H. A. (1993). Relational learning in stimulus sequences. Psychological Record, 43, 599-615.
- Roche, B., and Barnes, D. (1996). Arbitrarily applicable relational responding and sexual categorization: A critical test of the derived difference relation. The Psychological Record, 46, 451-475.
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