Smyth, Sinead and Barnes-Holmes, Dermot and Forsyth, John P. (2006) A derived transfer of simple discrimination and self-reported arousal functions in spider fearful and non-spider-fearful participants. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 85 (2). pp. 223-246. ISSN 1938-3711

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Abstract

Two experiments investigated the derived transfer of functions through equivalence relations established using a stimulus pairing observation procedure. In Experiment 1, participants were trained on a simple discrimination (A1+/A2-) and then a stimulus pairing observation procedure was used to establish 4 stimulus pairings (A1-B1, A2-B2, B1-C1, B2-C2). Subsequently, a transfer of the simple discrimination functions through equivalence relations was observed (e.g., C1+/C2-). These procedures were modified in Experiment 2, which demonstrated that spider-fearful and non-spider-fearful participants show differing levels of a transfer of self-reported arousal functions for stimuli used in equivalence relations with video-based material depicting scenes with spiders. The results demonstrate that the stimulus pairing observation procedure provides a viable alternative to matching-to-sample, and also offer tentative support for a derived-relations model of the acquisition of anxiety responses in at least one sub-clinical population.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	simple discrimination; stimulus pairing observation procedure; derived transfer of functions; spider fearful; humans;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	14890
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2006.02-05
Depositing User:	Prof. Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2021 14:09
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Publisher:	Wiley
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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