# Derived asymmetric and transitive relations using the go/no‐go procedure with compound stimuli

## TL;DR

This study explores how using a go/no-go procedure with compound stimuli can help establish complex relationships between stimuli under specific contextual cues.

## Contribution

The study demonstrates that derived asymmetric and transitive relations can emerge using a go/no-go procedure with compound stimuli and contextual cues.

## Key findings

- Participants demonstrated derived relations after training with contextual cues.
- The procedure was effective even without nonarbitrary relational training in a replication experiment.
- The study discusses implications for applying this procedure in behavioral contexts.

## Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to verify whether the go/no‐go procedure with compound stimuli would establish derived asymmetric and transitive relations between stimuli under the control of contextual cues. In Experiment 1, nonarbitrary relational training and tests established red and blue background colors as the contextual cues. Subsequently, arbitrary relational training established relations between pairs of stimuli under the control of the contextual cues. Finally, tests evaluated the emergence of new relations under contextual control. All four participants, university students, met the learning criterion during training and demonstrated the derived relations that were tested. Experiment 2 replicated Experiment 1, without the nonarbitrary relational training and testing. All three participants also exhibited the derived performances. The effectiveness of the procedure for establishing derived relations, the implications of the necessity of nonarbitrary relational training, and the possibilities for application are discussed.