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Peer reviewedBryan, Richard G.; Spear, Norman E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1976
Several experiments tested the occurrence of the "Kamin effect", i.e., the deficit in performance of an incompletely learned avoidance task, in terms of discrimination (choice) behavior by rats. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Peer reviewedPellegrino, James W.; Petrich, Judith – American Journal of Psychology, 1977
This data on transfer and list identification, combined with those reported by Petrich et al. (1975), strongly suggest that the decision component is the major factor affecting the free recall of successive overlapping lists. This decision component is best described by Anderson and Bower's model (1972) of the roles of list tagging and contextual…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Flow Charts, Memory, Psychological Studies


