Teaching brain-behavior relations economically with stimulus equivalence technology.
Instructional interventions based on stimulus equivalence provide learners with the opportunity to acquire skills that are not directly taught, thereby improving the efficiency of instructional efforts. The present report describes a study in which equivalence-based instruction was used to teach college students facts regarding brain anatomy and function. The instruction involved creating two classes of stimuli that students understood as being related. Because the two classes shared a common member, they spontaneously merged, thereby increasing the yield of emergent relations. Overall, students mastered more than twice as many facts as were explicitly taught, thus demonstrating the potential of equivalence-based instruction to reduce the amount of student investment that is required to master advanced academic topics.
Fienup
Daniel M
DM
Illinois State University, USA. daniel.fienup@qc.cuny.edu
Covey
Daniel P
DP
Critchfield
Thomas S
TS
D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009445:Neuroanatomy / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014495:Universities
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