Abstract

GONZALEZ-BECERRA, VÍCTOR  and  ORTIZ, GERARDO. EFFECTS OF TYPE AND CONTENT OF PRE-CONTACT DESCRIPTIONS ON CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION BEHAVIOR AND POST-CONTACT DESCRIPTIONS. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.1, pp.11-23. ISSN 0123-9155.

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.

Keywords : pre-contact description; post-contact description; content; transfer test; matching-to-sample; interbehavioral theory.

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