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The experiment tested adult Ss’ ability to learn the concept of an artist’s style. On the pretest Ss were shown colored slides of a painting and guessed the artist. During training new slides paired paintings with the names of artists. On the post-test the original pretest slides and new ones were shown. Ss demonstrated concept learning by improving on the posttest as compared to the pretest. A control group where names were not paired with pictures during training showed no improvement.
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1. The experiment was performed at Cornell University in 1958. Analysis was partially supported by NIH Grant HD-00203.
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Walk, R.D. Concept formation and art: Basic experiment and controls. Psychon Sci 9, 237–238 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330847
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