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Use of Samples Differing Markedly in Salience May Encourage Use of a Single-Code/Default Strategy in Matching-to-Sample in Pigeons
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Grant, Douglas S. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
To test the hypothesis that pigeons will only code the more salient sample when samples differ markedly in salience, pigeons were trained with samples consisting of a 2-s presentation of food (highly salient sample) and an 8-s presentation of keylight (less salient sample). During retention testing, pigeons tended to respond at longer delays as if…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Experiments
A Cognitive-Feature Model of Compound Free Associations
Johnson, Michael G. – Psychol Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing
Sensitivity and Response Bias Effects in the Learning of Familiar and Unfamiliar Associations by Rote or with a Mnemonic
McNicol, D.; Ryder, L. A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Hypothesis Testing, Mnemonics, Paired Associate Learning
Effects of Verbal and Pictorial Elaborations on Associative Learning and Response Learning in a Children's Paired-Associate Task
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Lynch, Steve; Rohwer, William D., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Hypothesis Testing, Paired Associate Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
Word Recognition Thresholds as a Function of Instruction, Type of Word Relations, and Associative Frequency
Lacher, Miriam R.; Riegel, Klaus F. – J Gen Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Hypothesis Testing, Instruction, Research
Children's Word Association to Individual Letters
Davis, Mary Lou; Otto, Wayne – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Grade 6, Hypothesis Testing