CODING RESPONSES AND THE GENERALIZATION OF MATCHING TO SAMPLE IN CHILDREN
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 42 (1), 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1984.42-1
Abstract
Two experiments studied the conditions of stimulus control necessary for the generalization of relational matching to sample. Matching required the selection of comparison shapes rotated 90° clockwise from the orientation of the corresponding sample. In Experiment 1, five children were taught to: (a) code the orientations of samples, (b) transform sample codings to account for the 90° rotation, and (c) repeat the transformed sample coding response to a comparison. High levels of generalization occurred with a set of novel stimuli for which stable sample-coding responses were initially available. In another novel set, where stable sample-coding responses were not initially available, low levels of generalized matching were recorded. Matching performance improved after stable coding responses were trained. In Experiment 2, two children and three adults were trained in a form of the matching task that produced poor generalization despite the presence of stable sample-coding responses. Retraining to modify the stimulus control exerted by these coding responses produced an immediate improvement in generalized matching to sample. Results suggest that the generalization of matching is dependent on the structure of stimulus control that the component responses exert on each other.Keywords
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