Positive-stimulus information is not “positive” for indirect transfer Influence of successive informed-reversal training on oddity learning in Japanese monkeys

• Published in: Japanese Psychological Research Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 168 - 179
• Main Author: KOMAKI, JUNJI
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo The Japanese Psychological Association 01.01.1991; Japanese Psychological Association
• Subjects: attention learning; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Japanese monkeys; learning-set theories; Learning. Memory; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; strategy learning; successive informed-reversals; successive reversal training; Attention; Monkey; Macaca fuscata; Discrimination task; Learning; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Acquisition process; Animal; Primates; Simioidea; Transfer; Strategy; Reward

Three groups of male Japanese monkeys were given two block discrimination training in WGTA. Two groups of subjects were trained in modified successive reversals. Before each reversal, one group (Group PSI, n=3) was presented with positive stimulus for the next reversal and the response to it was rew...