Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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9.2 Irrelevant Features of Formal Similarity
Some features that are irrelevant to formal similarity include the specific formal or dynamic features of both the stimulus and the response-product and the number of additional formal or dynamic features resembling one another.
Formal Similarity
A relationship between a stimulus that evokes a response and the response-product of that response with the following features:
The stimulus and the response-product are both in the same modality (e.g., they are both visual or they are both auditory)
Their physical patterns or sequences resemble one another (e.g., they may look or sound alike)
Specific formal or dynamic features of the stimulus and the response-product
The number of additional formal or dynamic features resembling one another
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