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GENERALIZATION OF AUDITORY INTENSITY AS A FUNCTION OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF DISCRIMINATION TRAINING 1
Author(s) -
Pierrel Rosemary,
Sherman J. Gilmour,
Fischman Marian W.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1963.6-545
Subject(s) - generalization , audiology , training (meteorology) , discrimination learning , intensity (physics) , auditory stimuli , psychology , speech recognition , computer science , mathematics , cognitive psychology , medicine , neuroscience , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics , meteorology , perception
Rats were trained on a two‐valued auditory‐intensity discrimination for 5, 2, 1 or 0 days. Then, the bar‐press response rate was sampled in the presence of seven added discrimination stimuli (generalization) for seven days. Daily training sessions were 4 hr in length throughout the experiment. Only the five‐day group exhibited a marked superiority on the multi‐valued discrimination when contrasted with the group having had no prior simple discrimination training.