Effect of Prior Experience with Discriminanda on Differential Conditioning
- 1 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 18 (2), 343-349
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.18.2.343
Abstract
Different amounts of reversal training: None, 4 reinforced trials to the white alley (4W+) and 4 nonreinforced trials to the black (4B−), 10W+ vs 10B−, and 30W+ vs 30B−, were given prior to differential instrumental reward conditioning, B+ vs W−. Speeds of 20 male hooded rats per group were measured on the 4 trials given per day. Both average speeds and individual Ss' discrimination scores showed that as more predifferential trials were given, more trials to discrimination were required on the reversed differentiation problem. The results were discussed in terms of some basic assumptions made by frustration theories of nonreward.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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