Retroactive facilitation as a function of degree of generalization between tasks.

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This experiment was planned to test the hypothesis that retroactive facilitation ought to be expected under certain conditions in learning experiments. Nonsense forms and nonsense syllables were presented to 105 subjects according to the method of right associates, and other lists containing different degrees of generalization were interpolated between initial and test learning. "In general, support was found for the hypothesis that in paired associates learning, as the degree of generalization between original and interpolated stimuli increases from zero to a maximum, there will be increasing retroactive facilitation if the original and interpolated responses are identical and increasing retroactive inhibition if the responses are different." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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