An experiment on orientation in stylus maze learning.

Abstract
The problem of the present experiment was: In stylus maze learning, if the human subject is presented with many equidistant pathways to a goal, will he fixate one of them or will he vary his choice of paths as the rat does? The maze used was made of wood and modeled after that used by Dashiell in his study on direction orientation in maze running by the white rat. The conventional stylus maze procedure was used. Results show that the subjects, without exception, tried to follow the same pathway each time. It is concluded that orientation to local cues in the pathway is of relatively greater importance to stylus maze learning than it is to maze learning in rats. Factors which possibly contribute to the making of the difference between the learning of a stylus maze by human subjects and of a similar maze by rodents are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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