Affiliation:
1. University of Kentucky
Abstract
The present study was designed to compare the anticipation and pairing-test methods of paired-associate presentation in a three-stage mediation design. In addition, a comparison was made of the mediation effects in chaining and response equivalence paradigms. The results indicated a mediation effect in all conditions, but there was essentially no difference between the chaining paradigm and the response equivalence paradigm. Comparisons of methods of presentation indicated that the pairing-test method was superior to the anticipation method on the two acquisition stages of the three-stage design. However, on the final or test stage the two methods of presentation did not differ.