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The present study investigated the overtraining reversal effect in a probability learning situation. Groups of 15 Ss received either 100 or 200 training trials with either.90:. 10 or.75:.25 schedules, and then received 100 trials with reversed probability schedules. There were no differences between the 100 and 200 training trial groups during the reversal trials, and thus, no evidence for an overtraining reversal effect. Previous reports of an overtraining reversal effect were attributed to differences in prereversal levels of performance.
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Yelen, D.R., Yelen, D. The overtraining reversal effect in a probability learning situation. Psychon Sci 14, 152 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332759
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