Relational rule discovery in complex discrimination learning
| Autor: | Rosalind Hutchings, Evan J. Livesey, Hilary J. Don, Micah B. Goldwater, Justine K. Greenaway |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Adolescent Transfer Psychology education Individuality Statistical relational learning Experimental and Cognitive Psychology PsycINFO 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Discrimination Learning Thinking Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Discrimination learning 4. Education 05 social sciences Cognition Cognitive test Logical biconditional Practice Psychological Transfer of training Female Psychology Row 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 46:1807-1827 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1285 0278-7393 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xlm0000848 |
| Popis: | Failure to learn and generalize abstract relational rules has critical implications for education. In this study, we aimed to determine which training conditions facilitate relational transfer in a relatively simple (patterning) discrimination versus a relatively complex (biconditional) discrimination. The amount of training participants received had little influence on rates of relational transfer. Instead, trial-sequencing of the training contingencies influenced relational transfer in different ways depending on the complexity of the discrimination. Clustering instances of relational rules together during training improved transfer of both simpler patterning and more difficult biconditional rules, regardless of individual differences in cognitive reflection. However, blocking all trials of the same type together improved rule transfer only for biconditional discriminations. Individual differences in cognitive reflection were also more predictive of relational rule use under suboptimal training conditions. The results highlight the need for comprehensive accounts of relational learning to consider how learning conditions and individual differences affect the likelihood of engaging in learning relational structures. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). |
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