Sameness may be a natural concept that does not require learning
| Autor: | Thomas R. Zentall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Novel technique
Matching (statistics) Computer science Cognitive Neuroscience education 05 social sciences food and beverages Variety (linguistics) behavioral disciplines and activities Abstract concept 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Natural (music) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Degree of similarity Set (psychology) psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 37:7-12 |
| ISSN: | 2352-1546 |
| Popis: | Same/different abstract concept learning in pigeons is typically assessed by training subjects with one set of stimuli and demonstrating that they can transfer that learning to new stimuli. Converging evidence suggests that under a variety of conditions, pigeons do show evidence of conceptual same/difference learning that goes beyond the if-then chains proposed by Skinner (1950). The fact that transfer is better when training involves many stimuli is of some concern because it is difficult to rule out a degree of similarity between any of the training stimuli and the testing stimuli. A novel technique involving two alternative matching and mismatching, in which familiar stimuli replace either the correct or the incorrect comparison, identifies the important role played by the comparison that matches the sample in both tasks. It appears that when the task is matching, the pigeons select that comparison, but when the task is mismatching the pigeons reject it. A similar finding has been reported with human infants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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