Abstract
Auditory-visual conditional discrimination can be established via an equivalence-based matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure. Successful performance on MTS requires prerequisite discriminative skills. Previous studies evaluated visual-visual successive matching-to-sample (S-MTS) as an alternative to establish equivalence classes with adults. Two experiments evaluated the effectiveness of auditory-visual S-MTS to establish listener behavior, equivalence classes, tacts, and sorting. Following training of baseline relations (AB/AC), participants were tested on untrained relations (i.e., BA/CA and BC/CB) and tasks (i.e., tacts and sorting [Experiment 2]). Overall, all participants met emergence criterion for untrained relations and sorting, and 9 out 16 did so for tacts. The auditory-visual S-MTS procedure is an effective alternative to traditional MTS to establish conditional discrimination.