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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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This analysis might also be used to explain events typically called hallucinations.
Importantly, participants were not told this rule at any point during the experiment.
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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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