Transfer effects and response strategies in pattern-versus-component discrimination learning.

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Two groups of human Ss [subjects] received training on discrimination problems in which component patterns received differential reinforcement from compound patterns which contained them. At 2 stages in acquisition training, a series oi transfer tests were presented which consisted of novel compounds of cues used in the training series. The principal results were during acquisition, transfer occurred from component patterns to compound patterns and vice versa; On the transfer tests, response strategies of responding to subpatterns and cues of the novel compounds were observed in differing degrees in the 2 groups. The results were discussed within the framework of stimulus sampling theory and a specific "mixed" model was proposed to account for the results.

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