Stimulus-Variability and Operant Discrimination in Human Subjects
- 1 June 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 69 (2) , 269-273
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1418157
Abstract
The prediction, derived from statistical learning theory, that in stimulus-discrimination, elements which are not common to Subsets SD1 and SD2 that are to be discriminated, and which have high [theta] -values, would facilitate discrimination, while elements which have low [theta] -values would lead to slower changes in behavior was tested using different patterns of blacked-in circles in a 9-circle matrix on 4 groups of 5 Ss each. The prediction was confirmed for both conditioning and extinction.Keywords
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