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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Fluid abilities and rule learning: patterning and biconditional discriminations |
Author: | Baetu, I. Burns, N. Yu, E. Baker, A. |
Citation: | Journal of Intelligence, 2018; 6(1):7-1-7-17 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
ISSN: | 2079-3200 2079-3200 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Irina Baetu, Nicholas R. Burns, Elsa Yu and A. G. Baker |
Abstract: | Previous experience with discrimination problems that can only be solved by learning about stimulus configurations enhances performance on new configural discriminations. Some of these effects can be explained by a shift toward increased configural processing (learning about combinations of cues rather than about individual elements), or by a tendency to generalize a learned rule to a new training set. We investigated whether fluid abilities influence the extent that previous experience with configural discriminations improves performance on subsequent discriminations. In Experiments 1 and 2 we used patterning discriminations that could be solved by applying a simple rule, whereas in Experiment 3 we used biconditional discriminations that could not be solved using a rule. Fluid abilities predicted the improvement on the second training set in all experiments, including Experiment 3 in which rule-based generalization could not explain the improvement on the second discrimination. This supports the idea that fluid abilities contribute to performance by inducing a shift toward configural processing rather than rule-based generalization. However, fluid abilities also predicted performance on a rule-based transfer test in Experiment 2. Taken together, these results suggest that fluid abilities contribute to both a flexible shift toward configural processing and to rule-based generalization. |
Keywords: | associative learning biconditional discrimination configural processing fluid abilities positive and negative patterning rule-based generalization |
Description: | Published: 27 February 2018 |
Rights: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
DOI: | 10.3390/jintelligence6010007 |
Grant ID: | ARC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence6010007 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Psychology publications |
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