PSYCH 241H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transitive Relation
2 Jan 2018
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The sense of sameness is the very keel and backbone of our thinking - william james. There is a training phase, where many of the trials have differential reinforcement. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousand trials are conducted with these baboons. Next, there is a testing phase (with a new stimulus set), where there were many trials and with nondifferential reinforcement. This test is looking at homogeneity in pattern, or the ability to reason which one is closest to the shown one. Reasoning about known relationships of stimuli to infer a relationship between the stimuli. How would you test this in nonhuman animals? that were not initially directly related to each other. You could use different colored objects and have one relate to another through a transitive property. A. burtoni males are extremely territorial and regularly engage in aggressive fights, the.
