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Acquisition and Transfer of Simultaneous Oddity
- Source :
- Psychological Reports; December 1965, Vol. 17 Issue: 3 p767-775, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 1965
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Abstract
- The matching-to-sample experimental procedure was altered by reinforcing the selection of the non-matching comparison hue rather than the matching stimulus. Six birds were trained with red, green, and blue alternatives and a simultaneous presentation of stimuli in which the sample was present at the same time as the choice stimuli. The acquisition functions began well above the chance level but displayed a very slow improvement thereafter, which was different from that shown under matching conditions. Transfer of the oddity performance was tested by substituting a yellow light whenever a blue stimulus had previously been programmed. The results from the transfer test are considered in terms of both a “coding hypothesis” and the stimulus rules which appear to govern the performance of the “oddity” task.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00332941 and 1558691X
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Psychological Reports
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs42216143
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.17.3.767