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Although attention models assume that the two subproblems of a discrimination shift are treated as a single problem, learning of a nonreversal shift can be broken down into performance on the subproblem that changes reward conditions and the one that does not. A general analysis of performance on these subproblems, appropriate to a broad range of attention models, is developed in this paper. This analysis leads to a rejection of attention models for some S populations, but shows that attention models may have been rejected prematurely for other populations of Ss.
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This research was supported by a grant (OEG 2 71 0532) from the Office of Education.
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Medin, D.L. Subproblem analysis of discrimination shift learning. Behav. Res. Meth. & Instru. 5, 332–336 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200200
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