title: Correspondence between definitions and procedures: A reply to Stokes, Osnes, and Guevremont.
abstract: Stokes, Osnes, and Guevremont's (1987) implicit definition of correspondence classes appears close to ours (Matthews, Shimoff, & Catania, 1987). Their definition, however, is fundamentally procedural and thus may have to be modified as experimental methodologies are refined. The advantage of our contingency-space analysis is that it is independent of specific procedures and focuses attention on problems inherent in some procedural definitions. Specifically, a contingency-space analysis addresses the issue of distinguishing specific instances from classes and reminds us that correspondence can be identified as a class only on the basis of observing a population of opportunities for say/do sequences in which the subject sometimes does not say.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland Baltimore County.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Catania
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shimoff
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Matthews