Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role listener training on the emergence of tacts and analogical responding. In Experiment 1, we trained six participants to select component stimuli from two three-member classes, with class one as “vek” and class two as “zog,” and tested how this training influenced participants’ tacts in the presence of compounds. We then tested analogies for baseline (AB and BC), symmetry (BA and CB), and transitivity (AC and CA) relations with both same (e.g., vek-vek = zog-zog) and different compounds (e.g., vek-zog = zog-vek). In Experiment 2, we included an additional tact test to see whether we would see an overall increase in relational tacts (i.e., “same” and “different”), and whether exposure to Analogy MTS tests would influence. Ten participants passed analogy tests after component (i.e., vek/zog) listener training alone. Two participants passed only after completing both component and relational (i.e., same/different) listener training.