Retroactive interference in single-cue probability learning |
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Authors: | LARS-Å KE LINDBERG,BERNDT BREHMER |
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Affiliation: | University of Umeå, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Abstract.— When two single-cue probability learning tasks with different amounts of unpredictable variance were learned in succession. a low variance task interfered with the retention of a high variance task, but the opposite was not true. The effects were positive in that they enabled the subjects to reach a higher response consistency and, thus, a higher level of achievement. It was suggested that the subjects made use of the low variance task to reject incorrect hypotheses about the cue-criterion relation and that interference from an interpolated task occurs only when this task provides information which has functional value for the subject. |
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