scholarly journals Differential inhibition and stimulus generalization cannot account for value transfer in simultaneous discrimination learning by pigeons: Reply to Aitken

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Zentall ◽  
Brigette R. Dorrance ◽  
Tricia S. Clement
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Simultaneous Discrimination ◽  
Stimulus Generalization ◽  
Differential Inhibition ◽  
Value Transfer

Reversal- and Non-Reversal-Shift Discrimination Learning as a Function of Drive in Albino Rats

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-452
Author(s):  
Jerome S. Cohen ◽  
Gabor A. Telegdy
Keyword(s):  
Trial Block ◽  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Water Deprivation ◽  
High Water ◽  
Drive Level ◽  
Simultaneous Discrimination ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Reversal Shift

Drive level affected reversal rather than non-reversal-shift learning during initial shift-discrimination trials. Animals under high water deprivation during the original simultaneous discrimination and reversal-shift discrimination made more initial (first trial-block) errors during reversal-shift than animals that were maintained on moderate deprivation during either or both discrimination tasks.

Sequential Effects in Simultaneous Discrimination Learning

1973 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Biederman
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Color Discrimination ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Simultaneous Discrimination ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Sequential Effects ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Learning Procedure ◽  
Unequal Frequency ◽  
Random Program

Latency and accuracy effects were studied with pigeons in a simultaneous discrimination-learning procedure which manipulated sequential randomness of stimulus events from trial to trial. Ss were trained to perform 2 color-discrimination problems with equal or unequal frequency of occurrence. It was found that non-random trial sequences had no effect on over-all acquisition as measured by latency and accuracy, but significant effects from remote trials were a function of the randomness of stimulus events. Performance characteristics on remote trials had significant local effects. In random program sequences, the 2 discrimination problems were learned independently of one another.

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