Overlearning and position reversal.
- 1 August 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 64 (2) , 117-122
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040578
Abstract
Four experiments were conducted involving extensive overtraining of a position discrimination habit in rats. In Exp. I, II, and III, reversal learning of the position response was consistently and markedly retarded in those Ss that had a moderate proportion of their postcriterion trials forced to the incorrect side. In all three experiments, however, Ss that had the same proportion of postcriterion trials forced to the correct side did not show the over-learning effect, i.e., they did not reverse faster than control Ss that received no overlearning experience. In Exp. IV, run with all free trials, the overlearning effect again failed to appear, although the number of postcriterion trials was increased to a maximum of 800.Keywords
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