Sidman demonstrated that after human participants acquired several four-term

discrimination, they could respond appropriately to new stimulus combinations without
any further training.

Sidman accounted for these emergent behaviors in terms of
stimulus
a. generalization.
b. equalization.
c. equivalence classes.
d. functional equivalencies.
e. dimensionalities.


c. equivalence classes.

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