Alice Hoon, Simon Dymond, James W. Jackson, & Mark R. Dixon. (2008)
Contextual control of slot-machine gambling: Replication and extension.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008
41, 467-470.
Participants were trained and tested to select stimuli of differing physical quantities in
the presence of 2 color contextual cues for more than and less than. Following more
than and less than relational training, participants allocated the majority of their responses
to the slot machine that shared formal properties of color with the contextual cue for more
than, despite the identical payout probabilities of the slot machines.
DESCRIPTORS: contextual control, gambling, relational training, replication, slot machines