Effect of overtraining of three discrimination shifts in children.
- 1 April 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 57 (2) , 290-293
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046944
Abstract
After discriminative learning to criterion (CR) or overtraining (OT), 6 groups of grade-school children performed reversal (RV), intradimensional (ID), or extradimensional (EX) shift. The relative ease of ID shift suggested the operation of a dimension-specific mediator which, coupled with an increased discrimination of reinforcement change, facilitated RV shift, but not EX shift, under OT condition. Results accord with previously reported overtraining effects with rats and have implications for comparative theories of mediated behavior.Keywords
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