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同等级培训对子相同/不同学习的影响
Robert G Cook1, Aaron P Blaisdell2
1Department of Psychology, Tufts University.
概括
子在与先前训练相匹配时更好地学习相同/不同的任务,这表明概念形成可以依赖于学习的关联,而不仅仅是视觉相似性.
科学领域:
- 动物认知动物的认知能力.
- 行为神经科学 行为神经科学
- 比較心理學 比較心理學
背景情况:
- 解开感知在动物概念形成中的作用是具有挑战性的.
- 相当性培训提供了一种研究这种分离的新方法.
- 之前的研究强调了学习中感知相似性的重要性.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查子是否可以使用学习的类信息独立于感知相似性来形成概念.
- 评估一致与不一致的训练对相同/不同的任务执行的影响.
- 开发一种新的范式来评估对概念学习的感知贡献.
主要方法:
- 子接受了与无关图像的等效类培训.
- 然后,两个组执行了相同/不同的 (S/D) 歧视任务.
- 一组接受了与其等效类相一致的S / D分配;另一个接受了不一致的分配.
主要成果:
- 一致组中的子在S/D任务中表现出优异的学习和刺激控制.
- 不一致的组表现较差,表明受错训练的干扰.
- 结果表明,子在S/D任务中使用了基于类的信息,而不是感知相似性.
结论:
- 子可以利用抽象的,以类为基础的信息来实现超越感知特征的概念学习.
- 这项研究提供了证据,可以将学到的关联与动物认知中的感知相似性分离开来.
- 开发的方法为未来关于概念形成机制的研究提供了有价值的工具.
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