The relationship between training methods and reward variables in brightness discrimination learning.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 49 (5) , 485-491
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0044397
Abstract
Systematic variation of training procedures and amount and visual size of reward in the acquisition of a black-white discrimination habit by pigmented rats showed no reliable relationship between duration of reward or visual size of goal object and error scores. Significant relationships between reward duration and running time for correct response and for maximal level of performance, between method of training (correction vs. non-correction) and running time for correct response and for rate of acquisition of the habit.Keywords
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