A SEARCH FOR SYMMETRY IN THE CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS OF RHESUS MONKEYS, BABOONS, AND CHILDREN
A SEARCH FOR SYMMETRY IN THE CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS OF RHESUS MONKEYS, BABOONS, AND CHILDREN
Procedures for generating arbitrary matchingātoāsample performances may generate only conditional discriminations. Rational grounds for this distinction are proposed, based on the properties that any equivalence relation must possess. Empirical tests are described for determining whether subjects trained on conditional discriminations are also engaged in true matching to sample. A series ā¦