EFECTOS DEL TIPO Y CONTENIDO DE LAS DESCRIPCIONES PRE-CONTACTO SOBRE LA CONDUCTA DE DISCRIMINACIÓN CONDICIONAL Y LAS DESCRIPCIONES POST-CONTACTO

• Main Authors: González-Becerra, Víctor, Ortiz, Gerardo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Católica de Colombia 2014-06-01
• Series: Acta Colombiana de Psicología
• Subjects: PRE-CONTACT DESCRIPTION; POST-CONTACT DESCRIPTION; CONTENT; TRANSFER TEST; MATCHING-TO-SAMPLE; INTERBEHAVIORAL THEORY
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2014.17.1.2

With the use of a 3x2 factorial design (type of pre-contact description, Specific-Pertinent (SP), Correct-Incorrect (CI) X content concerning instances, modalities and relations) six groups of four participants were set up and exposed to a firstorder matching-to-sample task. Results showed that the participants who received pre-contact descriptions about SP-modality and CI-relation obtained the highest percentages of correct answers during training (close to 100%), but the percentage of correct answers decreased progressively in the transfer tests. The accuracy and relevance of post-contact descriptions changed depending on implementation, whereas the accuracy of pre-contact description received was irrelevant. Results are discussed in relation to other research that has manipulated the type and / or content of the pre-contact descriptions.