%0 Journal Article
%T Accurate Delayed Matching-to-Sample Responding without Rehearsal: An Unintentional Demonstration with Children
%A Alan Poling
%A Jessica E. Frieder
%A Thom Ratkos
%J Archive of "The Analysis of Verbal Behavior".
%D 2016
%R 10.1007/s40616-016-0052-8
%X Research on joint control has focused on mediational responses, in which simultaneous stimulus control from two sources leads to the emission of a single response, such as choosing a comparison stimulus in delayed matching-to-sample. Most recent studies of joint control examined the role of verbal mediators (i.e., rehearsal) in evoking accurate performance. They suggest that mediation is a necessity for accurate delayed matching-to-sample responding. We designed an experiment to establish covert rehearsal responses in young children. Before participants were taught such responses; however, we observed that they responded accurately at delays of 15 and 30 s without overt rehearsal. These findings suggest that in some cases, rehearsal is not necessary for accurate responding in such tasks
%K Covert behavior
%K Joint control
%K Multiple control
%K Response strength
%K Stimulus control
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883555/