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TRANSPOSITION: A FURTHER TEST OF ABSOLUTE VERSUS RELATIONAL PREDICTIONS

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1975
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An attempt was made to investigate the intradimensional transfer of a simultaneously presented, double brightness discrimination in male hooded rats. It was hypothesized that in a paradigm designed to emphasize interstimulus cues over individual stimulus cues, subjects would exhibit transposition in testing, even when this involved approaching a previously negative stimulus, and avoiding a previously positive stimulus, under extinction conditions. Results of two tests (with a partial reinforcement retraining session between them) indicated significant transposition on all measures except trial of first choice on Test I for the group trained to approach the brighter stimulus in any pair presented. Results were interpreted as being in support of relational theory which stresses the importance of dimensional salience in the establishment of relational responding.
Title: TRANSPOSITION: A FURTHER TEST OF ABSOLUTE VERSUS RELATIONAL PREDICTIONS.
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Name(s): BIZAILLON, PAUL DUNN.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Adamson, Robert E., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1975
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 69 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: An attempt was made to investigate the intradimensional transfer of a simultaneously presented, double brightness discrimination in male hooded rats. It was hypothesized that in a paradigm designed to emphasize interstimulus cues over individual stimulus cues, subjects would exhibit transposition in testing, even when this involved approaching a previously negative stimulus, and avoiding a previously positive stimulus, under extinction conditions. Results of two tests (with a partial reinforcement retraining session between them) indicated significant transposition on all measures except trial of first choice on Test I for the group trained to approach the brighter stimulus in any pair presented. Results were interpreted as being in support of relational theory which stresses the importance of dimensional salience in the establishment of relational responding.
Identifier: 13749 (digitool), FADT13749 (IID), fau:10581 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Brightness perception
Discrimination learning
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