期刊名称:Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin (EAHB Bulletin)
电子版ISSN:1938-7237
出版年度:1999
卷号:17
出版社:Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Special Interest Group
摘要:A number of researchers have argued that stimulus equivalence is, in large part, the product of a history of explicit reinforcement for responding in accordance with equivalence relations (e.g., Barnes, 1994; Boelens, 1994; Hayes, 1991; Schusterman & Kastak, 1993). In effect, equivalence responding is an over-arching, or generalized, operant class. One method for testing this "theory" of equivalence would involve "arranging operant procedures for weakening the generalized performances... The reasoning would be that if the performances can be produced with operant procedures it should also be possible to eliminate them with operant procedures" (Boelens, 1994, p. 599).