A Function Acquisition Speed Test for Equivalence Relations (FASTER)

O’Reilly, Anthony; Roche, Bryan; Gavin, Amanda L.; Ruiz, Maria R.; Ryan, Aoife M.; Campion, Glenn

doi:10.11133/j.tpr.2013.63.4.001

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“…Concerning the procedural modifications to the FAST, findings of this study support the use of the Brelativistic^paradigm for assessing social biases, although its necessity still warrants investigation. As stated in the introduction, previous research (O'Reilly et al, 2013) noted the FAST's potential utility as a measure of Babsolute^or non-relative biases (e.g., of Bmenâ nd Bgood^, relative to two unrelated stimulus categories). The current study, however, opted to assess gender stereotypes of men and women relativistically (i.e., in relation to each other) in a single FAST.…”

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“…To date, the FAST paradigm has demonstrated utility in the assessment of both directly trained and derived equivalence relations established in the laboratory (O'Reilly, Roche, Gavin, & Ruiz, 2013;O'Reilly et al, 2012). This current research aims to ascertain its effectiveness as a measure of natural stimulus relations, that is, those established through contact with a verbal community.…”

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Using a Modified Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) for Assessing Implicit Gender Stereotypes

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The recently developed Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) represents an effort to assess the relative strength of stimulus relations by traditional behavior-analytic means (i.e., acquisition curves). The current study was the first application of the FAST to the assessment of natural, preexperimentally established stimulus relations. Specifically, this experiment assessed the sensitivity of the FAST to pervasive gender stereotypes of men as stereotypically Bmasculine(e.g., dominant or competitive) and women as stereotypically Bfeminine^(e.g., nurturing or gentle). Thirty participants completed a FAST procedure consisting of two testing blocks. In one block, functional response classes were established between classes of stimuli assumed to be stereotype-consistent (i.e., men-masculine and women-feminine), and in the other, between classes of stimuli assumed to be stereotypeinconsistent (i.e., men-feminine and women-masculine). Differences in the rate of class acquisition across the two blocks were quantified using cumulative record-type scoring procedures plotting correct responses as a function of time. Acquisition rates were significantly faster (i.e., displayed steeper learning curves) for the stereotype-consistent relative to the stereotype-inconsistent block. Corroborating stereotypes were observed on an Implicit Association Test containing identical stimuli.

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Using a Modified Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST) for Assessing Implicit Gender Stereotypes

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“…In addition, all test criteria for determining the formation of equivalence relations are ultimately arbitrary (e.g., 90% correct) and such criteria can easily be arrived at for the FAST method through further exploratory research. Notably, the current research (and previous research using the FAST with contrived equivalence relations, e.g., O'Reilly et al, 2013) involved the presentation of probe trials for equivalence classes prior to the administration of the FAST. Given that such probe trials may facilitate the formation of equivalence classes, it would be of interest to present the FAST to participants in a similar paradigm to the current experiment immediately following MTS training, without intervening probe trials.…”

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“…However, relatedness has also been manipulated via overtraining of equivalence relations (Bortoloti, Rodrigues, Cortez, Pimentel, & de Rose, ). Despite the potential advantages offered by a behavioral approach in terms of procedural clarity and conceptual parsimony (Hughes, Barnes‐Holmes, & DeHouwer, ), almost no published research has examined the efficacy of implicit measures in detecting laboratory‐created and controlled stimulus relations, with the exception of two studies examining the FAST procedure (O'Reilly et al, ; O'Reilly et al, ) and two examining the IAT procedure, conducted in the same laboratory (Gavin et al, ; Ridgeway et al, ; although see Hall, Mitchell, Graham, & Lavis, , for a relevant study tapping into the same behavioral process harnessed by most implicit measures). The current study employed an approach similar to the foregoing studies, but also extended this experimental paradigm to incorporate the controlled variation of relatedness between experimental stimuli.…”

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The relationship between differential stimulus relatedness and implicit measure effect sizes

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Implicit measures have been hypothesized to allow researchers to ascertain the existence and strength of relations between stimuli, often in the context of research on attitudes. However, little controlled behavioral research has focused on whether stimulus relations, and the degree of relatedness within such relations, are indexed by implicit measures. The current study examined this issue using a behavior-analytic implicit-style stimulus relation indexing procedure known as the Function Acquisition Speed Test (FAST). Using a matching-to-sample (MTS) procedure to train stimulus equivalence relations between nonsense syllables, the number of iterations of the procedure was varied across groups of participants, hence controlling stimulus relatedness in the resulting equivalence relations. Following final exposure to the MTS procedure, participants completed a FAST. Another group of participants was exposed to a FAST procedure with word pairs of known relatedness. Results showed that increasing relatedness resulted in a linear increase in FAST effect size. These results provide the first direct empirical support for a key process-level assumption of the implicit literature, and offer a behavior-analytic paradigm within which to understand these effects. These results also suggest that the FAST may be a viable procedure for the quantification of emergent stimulus relations in stimulus equivalence training.

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“…Although she noted that feminist scholarship, politics, and activism would continue to grow without contributions from behavior analysts, such an alliance had the potential to liberate and strengthen both disciplines. In an experimental extension of her theoretical work, Maria later collaborated with Bryan Roche of the National University of Ireland and his colleagues to develop the Function Acquisition Speed Task (FAST), a behavior-analytic reconstruction of the implicit association task (IAT; O'Reilly et al, 2013;O'Reilly, Roche, Ruiz, Tyndall, & Gavin, 2012). Maria viewed the FAST as a way to experimentally evaluate the development of prejudiced verbal behavior and demonstrate that discriminatory behavior could be learned and potentially remediated using behavior-analytic principles.…”

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