Identity Relation Can Serve as the Distinguishing Feature in Feature-Positive and Feature- Negative Learning Research  

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Dykeman, Carla ; Nallan, Gary B. ; Sanders, Reliford

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The American Journal of Psychology vol. 99 no. 1 (1986), page 71.
Topik: Identity; Relation; Learning
Fulltext: 1422305.pdf (819.97KB)

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In three experiments,a dult humanse xperienced a feature-positiveo r featurenegative letter discrimination task. The distinctive feature was a match in letters on one side of the card, i.e., the identity relation. In Experiment 1, the matching letters were next to each other, or separated by one other letter, or separatedb y two other letters. Feature-positivep ersons solved the task in significantly fewer trials than feature-negative persons. In Experiment 2, separate groups of feature-positive and feature-negative persons performed tasks where the matching letters were next to each other, or separated by one other letter, or separatedb y two other letters. Feature-positivep ersons solved the task in significantly fewer trials, and there was a trend toward faster learning when the matching letters were closer together. In Experiment 3, separate groups of feature-positive and feature-negative persons performed tasks where the matching letters were separated by one letter or were separated by three letters. Feature-positive persons solved the task significantly faster than feature-negative persons, and there was significantly faster learning when the matching letters were closer together. These results indicate that the identity relation can serve as a distinctive feature in visual discrimination problems.

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