The Experimental Analysis of Behavior of Stimulus and Response Equivalence

Research Project

Project/Area Number	02451017
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Psychology
Research Institution	Meisei University
Principal Investigator	OGAWA Takashi Meisei Univ., Dept. of Humanities, Prof., 人文学部, 教授 (30050850)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MANABE Kazuchika Meisei Univ., Dept. of Humanities, Prof., 人文学部, 助手 (80209676) YAMAMOTO Jun'ichi Meisei Univ., Dept. of Humanities, Prof., 人文学部, 専任講師 (60202389) OMINO Takashi Meisei Univ., Dept. of Humanities, Prof., 人文学部, 教授 (00062323) KANNO Makoto Meisei Univ., Dept. of Humanities, Prof., 人文学部, 教授 (60062311)
Project Period (FY)	1990 – 1991
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000) Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Keywords	and response equivalence / Stimulus equivalence / Response equivalence / Cognitive function / verbal behavior / pigeons / budgerigars / Handicapped children / Non-handicapped adults / 音声オペラント / 色のプロトタイプ / 反射律 / 対称律 / 推移律 / プロトタイプ / ハト
Research Abstract	Emergence of stimulus equivalence was required for the development of the higher-ordered cognitive functions, such as face recognition and probablistic conditional discrimination, by non-handicapped adults and handicapped children. Stimulus equivalence with three and more nodes was hard to emerge when non-linguistic stimuli were used. And, everyday life situation, differential responding was needed for establishing and maintaining selectionbased verbal behavior when the delayed matching-to-sample was used. These results suggest that functional mediating response had effects on promoting stimulus and response equivalence. Stimulus equivalence and response equivalence could explain the emergence of verbal behavior. The former involves selection based responding and the latter involves differential responding. The emergence of prototype was observed when the hue dimension was used, but was not observed when graphic figures were used in pigeons. Stimulus equivalence did emerge in budgerigars, when differential responding was associated with the sample stimulus and when the auditory stimuli were associated with visual stimuli. However, stimulus equivalence did not emerge when such differential responding was formed in the latter case. Stimulus equivalence did not emerge for pigeons regardless of the association of the differential responding. These results were discussed in terms of the integration of stimulus