Establishing Equivalent Intraverbal Relations

Abstract

This study applied the stimulus equivalence model to learning intraverbals, and found that for adult subjects the model is sufficient for predicting the occurrence of other intra· verbal relations, novel for the subjects. The relation between studies of verbal relations and those studies that show that nonverbal organisms have difficulties learning equivalent classes, suggest that analysis of verbal relations ought to include infants and other non· verbal organisms as subjects in order to reveal the necessary and sufficient conditions for learning verbal equivalence classes