Optional Shift, and Discrimination Learning with Redundant Relevant Dimensions: Predictions of an Attentional Model M
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The Zeaman-House-Lovejoy (ZHL) model for discrimination learning involves interacting perceptual and response learning processes, with rate parameters v and 0, respectively. This paper describes a number of predictions of the ZHL model for the optional shift paradigm. Kendler and Kendler showed that the proportion of subjects who learn an optional shift as a reversal increases with subject’s age, and Campione and others have argued that this trend may reflect developmental variation in parameters Ilike q~ and 0. Our main result is a formula specifying the dependence of reversal probability on pl and 0 for the ZHL model.
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