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An Interbehavioral Investigation of Remembering Interactions

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This study evaluated the influence of several factors on the development and evolution of remembering interactions from a thoroughly naturalistic, interbehavioral perspective. Specifically, the influence of non-compound and compound substitute stimuli, setting factors, interbehavioral history, and evolution of stimulus function were evaluated. Large differences between memorial interactions involving non-compound and compound stimuli were found with respect to both remembering and false remembering. Implications for further conceptual and experimental investigations are considered.

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  1. This analysis might also be used to explain events typically called hallucinations.

  2. It is important to note that while this process may seem similar to the paired-associates learning literature (e.g., Bower 1961; Greeno 1964), this only seems so at a very general, procedural level.

  3. Importantly, participants were not told this rule at any point during the experiment.

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Correspondence to Mitch J. Fryling.

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This study was completed in partial fulfillment of the first author’s PhD in behavior analysis at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Fryling, M.J., Hayes, L.J. An Interbehavioral Investigation of Remembering Interactions. Psychol Rec 64, 1–11 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-014-0011-5

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