The role of context stimuli in verbal learning.
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 53 (2) , 102-105
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0045774
Abstract
The cue value of a context stimulus not perfectly correlated with any single response during paired-associate learning was investigated. The subjects were instructed to learn verbal responses to 4 nonsense syllables. Two background colors were the context stimuli, each color being paired with 2 responses. Each color was found to have acquired discriminative status for the more frequently occurring response of the 2 associated with it. The results are interpreted as favoring an S-R reinforcement theory of discrimination learning.Keywords
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