title: Conditional discrimination after errorless and trial-and-error training.
abstract: Children were trained on a visual discrimination by stimulus shaping, stimulus fading, or trial-and-error. Those who did not acquire the conditional discrimination received a second, different training. More children initially trained by stimulus shaping acquired the conditional discrimination than did those initially trained with stimulus fading or trial-and-error. After a history of fading or trial-and-error training, children were less likely to acquire the conditional discrimination even after the more successful procedure of shaping was later used.
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D014163:Transfer, Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception