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. 2024 Apr 8;40(1):76-87.
doi: 10.1007/s40616-024-00205-7. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Correspondence Between Vocal-Verbal Behavior and Go/No-Go Responses During the Successive Matching-to-Sample Procedure

Jillian C Sordello  1 , Robbie J Hanson  2 , Caio F Miguel  1 , Armando Angulo  1 , Charles S Dingus  1
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Correspondence Between Vocal-Verbal Behavior and Go/No-Go Responses During the Successive Matching-to-Sample Procedure

Jillian C Sordello et al. Anal Verbal Behav. .

Abstract

In the current study, eight college students were exposed to a successive matching-to-sample (S-MTS) procedure utilizing non-verbal auditory stimuli consisting of common sounds. During emergent relations tests, participants were asked to talk aloud, and their vocal-verbal statements were transcribed and categorized as class-consistent, class-inconsistent, or irrelevant. All participants met emergence criterion for symmetry and four did so for transitivity/equivalence. Analysis of vocal-verbal statements showed a positive correlation between class-consistent statements emitted by participants and correct selection responses during S-MTS tasks. Such results suggest possible verbal mediation during emergent relations tests.

Keywords: Bidirectional naming; Equivalence; Mediation; Protocol analysis; Successive matching-to-sample.

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Conflicts of InterestThe authors have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Percentage of correct go and no-go responses, percentage of experimenter-defined and unique tacts, and percentage of class-consistent intraverbals across participants. Note. Exp Tact = experimenter-defined tact; Sym = symmetry; Trans = transitivity; BL train = baseline training; BL Test = baseline training when programmed consequences were removed; % CC IV = percentage of class-consistent intraverbals
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Percentage of class-consistent intraverbals and percentage of correct selection responses across participants
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Fig. 3
Percentage of class-inconsistent intraverbals and percentage of incorrect selection responses across participants
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