The development of noncontinuity behavior through continuity learning.

Abstract

Tested the hypothesis that as a rat learns to make a specific discrimination he also learns the response of discriminating by noting whether there is a more rapid learning of a discrimination reversal by rats given an excessive amount of overlearning in the original discrimination problem. Even though the Ss which overlearned the original response to the black card “continued to run longer to the black stimulus card upon reversal, they also learned the reversal to white at a far more rapid rate than did Ss of the other groups.” (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)