Efectos de las relaciones de condicionalidad en tareas de igualación de la muestra

The present study assessed if the transfer of behavior depends on the functional complexity of the initial task. Four groups of college students were exposed to second-order matching-to-samples tasks and two kinds of transfer trials: intramodal/extrarelational and extramodal/extrarelational. Between groups, tasks differed in both conditionality relations (i.e., conditional discrimination versus simple discrimination) and response requirements (i.e., instrumental versus observational). The highest percentage of correct responses in transfer tests were observed for the group exposed to the conditional discrimination situation and the instrumental response requirement. Results are discussed in relation to previous experiments on the effects of intrasituational contingencies upon linguistically-regulated behavior and variability.