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Nine newborn chicks were trained on a successive, red-green discrimination task. At the start of discrimination training, the intensity of the green light (S−) was slowly faded in for six chicks and was presented at full intensity for the remaining three. While meeting the response criterion for errorless learning, the chicks conditioned with the fading procedure made five times fewer errors than the full-intensity group. It was concluded that preexperimental error experience is not a necessary condition for the development of errorless learning.
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Robinson, P.W., Foster, D.F. & Bridges, C.V. Errorless learning in newborn chicks. Animal Learning & Behavior 4, 266–268 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214047
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