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4.20 Multiple Types of Stimulus Relations

But relations other than “equivalence” can also be trained and derived. Stimuli and events can be related in many different ways1,2,3,4.

A is the same as B

A is the opposite of B

A is different from B

A is better than B

A is the cause of B

A is less than B

A is far from B

A happened before B

A is part of B

A is above B

  1. Barnes-Holmes, D., Hayes, S. C., and Roche, B. (2001). The (not so) strange death of stimulus equivalenceEuropean Journal of Behavior Analysis, 2(1), 35-41.
  2. Dymond, S., and Barnes, D. (1995). A transformation of self-discrimination response functions in accordance with the arbitrarily applicable relations of sameness, more-than, and less-thanJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 64, 163-184.
  3. Green, G., Stromer, R., and Mackay, H. A. (1993). Relational learning in stimulus sequences. Psychological Record, 43, 599-615.
  4. Roche, B., and Barnes, D. (1996). Arbitrarily applicable relational responding and sexual categorization: A critical test of the derived difference relationThe Psychological Record, 46, 451-475.
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