O'Reilly, Anthony and Roche, Bryan and Gavin, Amanda and Ruiz, Maria R. and Ryan, Aoife and Campion, Glen
(2013)
A Function Acquisition Speed Test
For Equivalence Relations (FASTER).
The Psychological Record, 63.
pp. 707-724.
ISSN 0033-2933
Abstract
The current study employed a stimulus equivalence paradigm to assess the ability
of the recently developed Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) to measure
the existence and strength of experimentally produced derived relations.
Twenty- two participants were exposed to a One- to- Many stimulus equivalence
training procedure (A1–B1, A1–C1, A2–B2, A2–C2), followed by testing for
derived B1–C1 and B2–C2 relations. All participants were then exposed to a
FAST procedure in which a simple common operant response was established
for pairs of equivalent stimuli (e.g., B1 and C1) in one block of training. In
another bock of training, a common response was established for pairs of nonequivalent
stimuli (e.g., B1 and C2). Trial numbers required for participants to
reach mastery criteria differed across the two FAST blocks, as expected, but
only for those participants who had passed the prior equivalence testing phase.
This finding suggest that the FAST procedure functions as both a concurrent
measure of stimulus equivalence class emergence and a functional- analytic tool
that might assess unreinforced and socially sensitive stimulus relations formed in
the world outside the laboratory. Large inter- and intra- participant variations in
performances across FAST blocks are discussed.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
implicit test; Function Acquisition Speed Test; stimulus equivalence; derived relations; attitude measurement; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
| Item ID: |
6809 |
| Identification Number: |
10.11133.j.tpr.2013.63.4.001 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. Bryan Roche
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| Date Deposited: |
14 Jan 2016 17:26 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
The Psychological Record |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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