Transfer effects of successive discrimination-reversal training in chimpanzees.

R J SCHUSTERMAN
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Abstract

Chimpanzees receiving successive discrimination-reversal training on a single pair of stimuli transferred almost perfectly to two additional reversal tasks and to a "learning-set" series of 180 discrimination problems. A "win-stay, lose-shift" strategy, however it is acquired, seems to be a sufficient basis for one-trial discrimination learning.

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Animals
Behavior
Discrimination Learning
Humans
Pan troglodytes
Transfer, Psychology

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