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Human Ss attempted to master discrimination tasks involving four displays containing nonsense forms, here schematized as ab, ba, cd and dc. The tasks proved difficult when position was reinforced in a way that made the distinction ab-ba vs. cd-dc relevant.
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Goldstein, M. Human learning in a simplified contingent discrimination situation. Psychon Sci 6, 189–190 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328021
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