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The present study was designed to investigate whether different degrees of acquisition of pre-experimentally acquired discriminative responses (prior habit arousal) would prove a significantly more effective means of facilitating the subsequent learning of the oddity problem than corresponding amounts of activation of warm-up (receptor-orientating responses). Ss were 156 second grade children assigned to seven groups, including six treatment conditions, and matched for sex. Three groups had different amounts of experiences in seeing-and-discriminating among the stimuli and three groups had parallel amounts of pretraining in seeing (warm-up) experiences. All pretraining groups learned the oddity problem in fewer trials than the control group with the prior habit arousal groups being superior to the warm-up groups. Amount of pretraining and interaction effects were not statistically significant.
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1. The results of this study were reported at the Western Psychological Association meetings at San Diego, March 1968.
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Schroth, M.L. Transfer in oddity problems as a function of type and amount of pretraining. Psychon Sci 12, 151–152 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331244
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