The effect of stimulus discriminability on strategies for learning multiple temporal discriminations

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 476-483

  Guilhardi, Paulo ^a,b   Menez, Marina ^a,c   Caetano, Marcelo S ^a,d,e   Church, Russell M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Humans; Memorization; Peak procedure; Stimulus control; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LEARNING; STUDENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING STYLE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951979022     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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