ABA Exam CoachLessons · G. Behavior-Change Procedures
G.19 · Emergent relations and generative learning
What if you could teach just two relations and get four more for free? That's the payoff of emergent relations, and once you see how they're built and tested, these questions get much easier.
Key takeaway
Emergent relations are correct responses that show up without being directly trained or reinforced. In a linear series where you teach A→B and B→C, reversing one taught pair (B→A) is symmetry, chaining through the shared stimulus (A→C) is transitivity, and reversing the whole chain (C→A) is the combined equivalence test. A relation only counts as emergent if a pretest showed it was missing and it wasn't reinforced during testing.
Emergent relations are correct responses that show up without being directly trained or reinforced. In a linear series where you teach A→B and B→C, reversing one taught pair (B→A) is symmetry, chaining through the shared stimulus (A→C) is transitivity, and reversing the whole chain (C→A) is the combined equivalence test. A relation only counts as emergent if a pretest showed it was missing and it wasn't reinforced during testing.
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The video walks through the idea, worked examples, the trap people fall into and an exam-style question. The notes and the checkpoint come with it, and your results feed your Where to focus plan.