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Leith, Charles R.; Maki, William S., Jr. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1977
Whether a stimulus compound is separable or integral has predictable consequences for several human information processing tasks. The purpose of these experiments was to explore the implications of this distinction for research in animal learning and the development of learning theory. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology
Kral, Paul A.; And Others – 1967
Investigates the effect of delay of reinforcement upon human discrimination learning with particular emphasis on the form of the gradient within the first few seconds of delay. In previous studies subjects are usually required to make an instrumental response to a stimulus, this is followed by the delay interval, and finally, the reinforcement…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Learning
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Carmean, Stephen L.; Carmean, C. Jean – Child Development, 1971
Results of 5 experiments supported the hypothesis that many nonlearners in a multipair visual discrimination learning task were following position rather than object strategies and that it was possible to predict individual subjects' strategies from previous performances. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing