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STIMULUS FUNCTION IN SIMULTANEOUS DISCRIMINATION 1

Author(s) -

Biederman Gerald B.

Publication year - 1968

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.1968.11-459

Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , reinforcement , discrimination learning , psychology , negativity effect , stimulus control , audiology , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , social psychology , medicine , nicotine

In discrimination learning, the negativity of the stimulus correlated with nonreinforcement (S–) declines after 100 training trials while the stimulus correlated with reinforcement (S+) is paradoxically more positive with lesser amounts of discrimination training. Training subjects on two simultaneous discrimination tasks revealed a within‐subjects overlearning reversal effect, where a more‐frequently presented discrimination problem was better learned in reversal than was a discrimination problem presented less frequently during training.

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