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Published on: January 25, 2018
Serial position effects in social transmission of food preference
C Edith Juárez-Maldonado1, Guadalupe Ortega-Saavedra, Francisco Huichan-Olivares
1National Autonomous University of Mexico, Tlalnepantla, Mexico.
Abstract:
The serial position effect in Long-Evans rats was evaluated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, the effect in a group for which an interstimulus interval (ISI) was introduced between items in a list of demonstrators was compared with that in a group without an ISI. With an ISI, a recency effect was produced. In Experiment 2, a serial position effect group was compared with four groups in which either the distinctiveness or the context of the middle item was changed, relative to the items on either side of it. A von Restorff effect was produced when a rat from a different strain was used as a demonstrator in Position 2. The results for Experiment 1 are discussed in relation to interstimulus effects in monkeys and those for Experiment 2 with respect to changes in the physical properties of middle items.
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