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Thirty-three 3½- to 5½-year-old children learned a conditional discrimination problem involving both reversal (RS) and non-reversal (NRS) paradigms. The performance of children who had learned a reversal problem four months previously was superior to that of the naive children.
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1. This research was supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant HD-01570 to E. S. Gollin.
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Saravo, A., Gollin, E.S. Shift behavior in naive and sophisticated children. Psychon Sci 11, 210 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327664
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