The effects of certain pre-training procedures upon maze performance and their significance for the concept of latent learning.

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Four groups of white rats were subjected to pre-training procedures designed to give them respectively: (1) habituation to handling, (2) habituation to being detained in an enclosure similar to the starting compartment in the maze, (3) familiarity with the maze, and (4) familiarity with the maze and goal orientation. In subsequent rewarded training on the maze, the performance of the fourth group was significantly superior to that of a control group which had received no pretraining. The performance of the other 3 experimental groups was better than that of the control group, but not significantly so. "It is suggested that those factors which operated in the present study to produce facilitory effects upon rewarded training were also operative in previously reported latent learning experiments." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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