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Le Pelley, M. E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Monkeys will selectively and adaptively learn to avoid the most difficult trials of a perceptual discrimination learning task. Couchman, Coutinho, Beran, and Smith (2010) have recently demonstrated that this pattern of responding does not depend on animals receiving trial-by-trial feedback for their responses; it also obtains if experience of the…
Descriptors: Animals, Associative Learning, Feedback (Response), Discrimination Learning
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Bartholomeus, Bonnie N.; Doehring, Donald G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns
Smothergill, D. W.; Cook, Harold – 1969
The author initially cites the associationistic position of Spiker and the perceptual learning position of E. Gibson and concludes that the existing data does not clearly support either hypothesis. He describes a new approach designed to test these explanations of the role of verbal pretraining on subsequent discrimination learning. It consists of…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning
ROSENTHAL-HILL, IRENE; SUPPES, PATRICK – 1967
CONCEPT FORMATION IN 50 KINDERGARTENERS WAS STUDIED BY REQUIRING THE CHILDREN TO SORT CARDS ACCORDING TO ONE OF FOUR ATTRIBUTES OF THREE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO EXPLORE THE VALIDITY AND LIMITATIONS OF AN ALL-OR-NONE LEARNING MODEL FOR COMPLEX CLASSIFYING RESPONSES. INFORMATION WAS PRESENTED TO THE SUBJECT BY TWO POSITIVE…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation