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- Title
INSTRUCTIONS INADEQUATE TO THE TASK CONTROL RESPONSE RECOVERY AFTER DISCRIMINATION REVERSAL IN HUMAN BEINGS.
- Authors
Romero, Mucio A.; Vila, N. Javier; Rosas, Juan M.
- Abstract
Two experiments explored the role of irrelevant instructions on performance after reversal of conditional discriminations in human beings. Students were exposed to a matching-to-sample task where they had to choose between two comparative stimuli based on the form of a sample stimulus. During Phase 2 the criterion was reversed, and participants had to make their choice based on the color of the stimulus. The frequency of responses to form was recorded in the absence of feedback during the test. Experiment 1 manipulated the instructional context where each phase took place. Two different instructions irrelevant to the task were counterbalanced as instructions 1 and 2. Group 111 received the training with instruction 1 present. Group 112 was tested in the presence of instruction 2. Finally, Group 121 received training in the presence of instruction 1, reversal in the presence of instruction 2, and testing in the presence of instruction 1. Instructions change between reversal training and testing renewed Phase 1 performance, particularly when the test was conducted in the presence of instruction 1 (Group 121). Renewal disappeared when the semantic meaning of the instruction was eliminated (Experiment 2). Instructions may be used as physical contexts in human conditional discrimination reversal.
- Subjects
HUMAN behavior; CONDITIONED response; BEHAVIORISM (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of learning; BEHAVIOR modification
- Publication
Behavior Analyst Today, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 4, p221
- ISSN
1539-4352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/h0100075