Reinforcement-Test Sequences in Paired-Associate Learning
- 1 June 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 18 (3), 879-919
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.18.3.879
Abstract
To obtain evidence as to whether either learning or forgetting occurs on unreinforced trials and to adduce principles of optimal programming of reinforced (R) and test (T) trials, two experiments were planned each having four conditions with different repetitive R-T sequences: RTRT …, RRTRRT …, RTTRTT …, and RRTTRRTT. … 50 college students in each experiment learned 5 paired associates under each condition. Performance on successive Ts without intervening reinforcement suggested that neither learning nor forgetting occurred on Ts per se. However, the occurrence of Ts increased the effectiveness of subsequent Rs. A stimulus fluctuation model accounted for the major acquisition and retention phenomena, including the differential rates of learning under the different R-T sequences.Keywords
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