Transfer following regular and irregular sequences of events in a guessing situation.

Meyers, Lawrence S.; Driessen, Erik; Halpern, Joseph

doi:10.1037/h0032066

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“…Under PR, the subject is informed at various times (on N trials) that his choice, an element of a pattern, is incorrect. It is reasonable to assume that he will attempt to discover the currently correct pattern, thereby deviating from the originally learned pattern (Halpern & Poon, 1971;Meyers, Driessen, & Halpern, 1972). Thus, his deviation score should increase to a level of chance responding as the number of "incorrect" (no payoff) trials increases, that is, with decreases in percent reward.…”

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“…The sequential model has been extended to human extinction behavior in a PR gambling task by Halpern and associates (Halpern & Poon, 1971;Meyers, Driessen, & Halpern, 1972;Poon & Halpern, 1971). These researchers have found that persistence in betting during extinction, i.e., a period of no payoff, is also intIuenced by manipulations of N-length and number of N-R transitions.…”

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Sequential concept formation, hypothesis testing, and the PRE effect

Yaroush

1975

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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High school subjects received training on a sequential concept for monetary reward, were then exposed to partial reinforcement (PR), and finally were extinguished. Percent reward and number of N-R transitions were varied in the PR stage. The effects of PR on subject's hypotheses about the correct pattern were examined. Results of this study indicate that a PRE effect does exist within the constraints of this task. Partial reinforcement was also found to affect the length, variability, and complexity of subject's hypothesis. Contrary to expectations, these effects were independent of number of N-R transitions.

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Sequential concept formation, hypothesis testing, and the PRE effect

Yaroush

1975

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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“…This experience predisposes the subject toward a particular domain of hypotheses from which he believes subsequent solutions will be drawn. Levine (1974) has discussed implications of this conception for several standard phenomena, one of which is the partial-reinforcement extinction effect (pREE-see Humphreys, 1939;Meyers, Dreissen, & Halpern, 1972). In one version of the PREE paradigm subjects are asked to predict which of two panels will light up by making an appropriate prediction response (e.g., touching one of the two panels).…”

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Hypothesis theory and the PREE

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Levine

1975

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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A recent expansion of hypothesis theory has resulted in a new interpretation of the partial-reinforcement extinction effect (PREE). According to this interpretation, the classical lOO%-reinforcement and 50%-reinforcement groups receive different solution-experiences on Problem 1. This, in turn, produces different expectations about the solution on Problem 2. Three experiments, using a nonreversal shift paradigm, were performed to test this view. The results were that, as hypothesized, a nonreversal shift was learned faster than a shift from a random-reinforcement condition.

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