The most extensively employed paradigm for the analysis of relational behavior is the transposition task. Nevertheless, it has two important limitations for its use in humans. The first one is the "ceiling effect" reported in linguistic participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study evaluated the functional role of behavioral patterns in relational behavior in humans. The participants were five children, 9-11 years-old. A modified transposition task (size) was used, requiring active comparison patterns in order to match two relational stimulus compounds with two sample stimulus compounds.
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