GENERALIZATION OF AUDITORY INTENSITY AS A FUNCTION OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF DISCRIMINATION TRAINING.
Rats were trained on a two-valued auditory-intensity discrimination for 5, 2, 1 or 0 days. Then, the bar-press response rate was sampled in the presence of seven added discrimination stimuli (generalization) for seven days. Daily training sessions were 4 hr in length throughout the experiment. Only the five-day group exhibited a marked superiority on the multi-valued discrimination when contrasted with the group having had no prior simple discrimination training.
D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006309:Hearing; D051381:Rats; D012106:Research
DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING; RATS