Presentation rates and verbal discrimination learning

Number of Alternatives and Rate of Presentation in Verbal Discrimination Learning

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Discrimination learning in a verbal conditioning situation.

Reward magnitude and learning in a single-presentation discrimination.

The purpose of this experiment was to study the effect of amount of reward on performance in a single-presentation discrimination. Rats were reinforced for running down a gray alley to a black goalbox (S) but were not reinforced in a white goalbox (S~). Half the ,5s received a large reward, and half received a small reward. Generalizing from single-runway studies (Crespi, 1943), one would expec...

Phenomenal background frequency and the concreteness/imagery effect in verbal discrimination learning.

College students gave frequency ratings for concrete and abstract words which were equated on normative frequency. The results replicated the finding of Galbraith and Underwood (1973) that abstract words are perceived to be higher in frequency than concrete words. Different subjects then learned verbal discrimination lists consisting of both abstract and concrete pairs. While the usual concrete...

Left and right hemisphere contributions to physiognomic and verbal discrimination.

The relative contributions of the right- and left-temporal lobes in rapid recognition of faces and letters were studied in patients with anterior right- or left-temporal lobe excisions and a matched control group. On the basis of findings in patients with unilateral and bilateral brain damage, it was hypothesized that left hemisphere damage would not change the reaction time of letters analyzed...