Abstract
Previous research has suggested that participants used the relational tacts, “same” and “different” and emitted a problem-solving statement to pass analogy tests. Previous research has only used two stimulus classes in training. The purpose of the current research is to eliminate this confound by including a third stimulus class in during training. In Experiment 1 eight college students learned to tact “vek,” “zog,” or “paf” in the presence of arbitrary stimuli and then we tested for the emergence of tacts and equivalence-equivalence relations (analogy tests) where participants had to match class-consistent compound stimuli in a matching-to-sample task. In Experiment 2, eight participants learned to select the same component stimuli from a three-stimulus array. Four participants in each experiment were exposed to a talk out loud procedure. All participants used relational tacts and passed analogy tests, but those who were exposed to speaker training did not require remedial training.