Establishment of transitivity -indicative performances via multiple exemplar training and staged testing.
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Title
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Establishment of transitivity -indicative performances via multiple exemplar training and staged testing.
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Identifier
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AAI3063892
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identifier
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3063892
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Creator
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Varelas, Antonios.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Lanny Fields
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Date
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2002
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Behavioral | Psychology, Cognitive | Psychology, Experimental
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Abstract
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The differential emergence of transitivity-indicative performances was observed following exposure to multiple-exemplar transitivity training (MET) and/or staged testing (ST). Twenty-four college students who failed to demonstrate transitivity-indicative performances in an initial test served as experimental participants. The initial test included the presentation of six stimulus sets drawn from three visual domains (abstract 'glyphs', satellite images and nonsense syllables) in one test block (concurrent test). Participants were then randomly assigned to one of four groups. Participants in Group 1 did not receive any intervention. Participants in Group 2 (MET) received transitivity training with 20 new glyph sets. Participants in Group 3 (ST) were re-exposed to the same stimuli that were presented in the initial test, but in a series of test blocks. Each test block, contained stimuli from one domain (staged test). Participants in Group 4 (MET & ST) received both transitivity training and the staged test. Participants in all groups were then re-exposed the initial concurrent test without further training with these stimuli. When performances during the initial and final test were compared, participants in Group 1 showed no change in the number of sets that showed transitivity-indicative performances. Participants in Groups 2 and 3 showed moderate increases and participants in Group 4 showed much larger increases. The improvement shown by Groups 2 and 3, however, varied with stimulus domain. The glyph domain showed the lowest level of emergence, the satellite domain showed moderate levels of emergence and the nonsense syllable domain showed the highest level of emergence. These results suggest that the emergence of transitivity-indicative performances was related to the intervention used and the nameability or perceptual organization of the stimuli in each of the stimulus domains.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
