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Eight White King pigeons were trained to peck at each of four stimuli presented alone: white vertical line, white horizontal line, red background, green background. Then each pigeon was given 10 sessions of single stimulus discrimination training and 5 sessions of compound stimulus discrimination training with these stimuli; four pigeons received single stimulus training first and four received compound stimulus training first. Vertical line and green background were always SD components, and horizontal line and red background were always SsD components. In generalization tests, when all four stimuli were again presented alone, nonresponding was selectively controlled by the single stimulus discrimination training, SsD, regardless of training sequence.
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Portions of these results were presented to the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, 1969. This research was supported by Grant MH-13383 from the National Institute of Mental Health and by NASA Grant NGR-47-004-006.
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Johnson, D.F., Kinder, B.N. & Scarboro, G.N. Determination of selective stimulus control by part of a compound S△. Psychon Sci 17, 7–8 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329138
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329138