Abstract

LEON, Alejandro. CONTACT MODE: EFFECT ON CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION ACQUISITION, TRANSFER AND RULE EMERGENCE. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.1, pp.25-36. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2015.18.1.3.

This study examined the effect of four contact modes (direct, morphology, linguistic, observational, and direct plus description) on the acquisition and transfer of conditional discrimination and the emergence of rules. Sixteen experimentally naive university students, aged between 18 and 21 years, participated in the study. A within-subject design that involved initial test, training, rule generation, and testing transfer (extra instance test, extra modal test, extra relational test) was used. A second order matching to sample task was used. The results suggest that: a) both the observational mode without instrumental components and the linguistic morphology without direct perceptual contact allow the acquisition and transfer of conditional discrimination and the emergence of rules; b) there is no consistent relationship between the rules and the effective extrarelational transfer. Results are discussed in terms of the need for: i) direct contact with contingencies for the transfer and emergence of rules, ii) participation of a linguistic segment (rule) for the effective extrarelational transfer.

Keywords : Observational contact; linguistic morphology; conditional discrimination; rules.

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