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Before 48 human adults began to classify stimuli correctly by a rule we withheld, they suddenly—in their trial of last error—spent significantly more time (per cent)observing relevant stimuli. Then, relevant observing increased during overlearning, decreased drastically during extinction, and again increased under a superstition condition. Ss gave more absolute observing time to closer stimuli
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Supported by Swedish Social Science Research Council grants.
Arnberg ran the Ss. We thank Dr. T. Trabasso, UCLA, for stimulus blocks with scaling data and E. Tent for assistance with variance analyses of absolute touching times.
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Rydberg, S., Arnberg, P.W. Selective attending changes during concept learning, extinction, and superstition. Psychon Sci 17, 99–100 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336466
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