Peak shift revisited: a test of alternative interpretations.
Peak shift revisited: a test of alternative interpretations.
复制标题
重新审视峰移:替代解释的测试。
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
1991
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
E. Wiertelak
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
David R. Thomas;Kelly Mood;S. Morrison;E. Wiertelak
In Experiment 1, 2 groups of human subjects were trained to respond to 1 of 2 light intensity stimuli, S2 or S4, and then were tested for generalization with a randomized series of increasing values from S1 to S11. Both groups, including the group trained to respond to dimmer value, showed peak shifts to a brighter more centrally located test stimulus. In Experiment 2, which used line angle stimuli, both the size of the difference between S+ and S- and the range of test stimuli that extended beyond S+ were varied. The larger the S(+)-S- separation and the larger the range, the greater was the peak shift obtained. In Experiment 3, training involved an S- (line angle) surrounded by 2 S+ values with testing symmetrical about the training values and covering either a narrow or a wide range. The wide range produced greater peak shifts in both directions from S-. All 3 experiments support an adaptation-level interpretation of intradimensional discrimination learning and generalization test performance in human subjects. Related work with animals suggests the presence of similar processes.