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A COMPARISON OF FORWARD AND BACKWARD PROCEDURES FOR THE ACQUISITION OF RESPONSE CHAINS IN HUMANS
Author(s) -
Weiss Kenneth M.
Publication year - 1978
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.1978.29-255
Subject(s) - computer science , reinforcement , chain (unit) , link (geometry) , artificial intelligence , speech recognition , arithmetic , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , computer network , physics , astronomy
Ten university students each learned four separate six‐link response chains, two forward and two backward. All 10 subjects made fewer errors in the forward procedure. It was concluded that the forward procedure is superior because each link of the response chain is acquired by direct reinforcement.