Overtraining and reversal learning by cats and rhesus monkeys.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 62 (2) , 332-335
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023674
Abstract
Effects of 0, 50, 100, and 200 overtraining trails upon subsequent reversal learning were investigated in 3 experiments with experimentally sophisticated Ss[subjects]. 8 cats were trained on simultaneous discriminations, and 8 cats and 14 monkeys on successive discriminations. Overtraining retarded reversal learning in all 3 experiments; retardation resulting from overtraining was statistically significant in experiments with cats trained on simultaneous problems and with monkeys. These findings are incompatible with predictions derived from attention theory.Keywords
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