Response to Changing Patterns of Events

Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; Rubinstein, Irvin; Lubin, Ardie

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“…This negative recency effect, first reported by Jarvik (1951), has proved difficult to explain (Estes, 1964). However, two recent studies (Berks, 1963 ;Goodnow, Rubenstein, & Lubin, 1960) have demonstrated the importance of the average length of a run of events as a factor in any explanation of the negative recency effect. The Goodnow et al (1960) results showed that negative recency decreased as mean run length increased.…”

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“…However, two recent studies (Berks, 1963 ;Goodnow, Rubenstein, & Lubin, 1960) have demonstrated the importance of the average length of a run of events as a factor in any explanation of the negative recency effect. The Goodnow et al (1960) results showed that negative recency decreased as mean run length increased. Berks (1963) found negative recency using short runs, and positive recency with long runs and extra long runs.…”

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Effect of mean and variability of event run length on two-choice learning.

Gambino¹,

Myers²

1966

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Effect of mean and variability of event run length on two-choice learning.

Gambino¹,

Myers²

1966

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…Several investigators (Goodnow, Rubenstein, & Lubin, 1960;Jarvik, 1951;Restle, 1961) have emphasized the influence of the length of runs of homogeneous events on prediction behavior. Restle has presented a model which assumes both a random sequence and that Ss perform solely on the basis of runs of previous events.…”

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Performance on complexly patterned binary event sequences.

Wolin¹,

Weichel²,

Terebinski³

et al. 1965

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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Prediction behavior was studied in a context of complexly patterned binary sequences. Sequences were generated from nonstationary, event-contingent, partially random sources. A variable of major importance was the presence or absence of a displayed history of the last eight events in the sequence. Evidence was found that people seek and find order to some degree in the environment. The process by which order is sought and found is discussed. Briefly, Ss do not attempt to analyze the sequence formally, but they respond to recurrent patterns. Those sources where relations between events were important were much more difficult to learn than were sheer frequency or location, and not relations, were important.

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“…That is, the discrepancy between the old and the new conditional reinforcement probabilities can affect RE in the opposite directions, depending on the amount of the discrepancy. There is, unfortunately, no literature concerning the transfer of learning of conditional probability, although there are some concerning that of unconditional probability of reinforcement (e.g., Goodnow, Lubin & Rubinstein 1960).…”

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An Information-Theoretic Approach to Partial Reinforcement Effect

Habu

Ono

1969

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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The basic assumption is that with a constant percentage of reinforcement, resistance to extinction (RE) would be a function of uncertainty associated with a reinforcement pattern.3 groups of rats (double-alternation, 50% random, and continuous) were run in a runway.The last group extinguished most rapidly. No difference in RE was found between the other 2 groups. The conditional entropy of reinforcement-response sequences for the alternation group, as compared with the random group, failed to decrease when its orders were the 3rd or higher. These findings indicate that the second-order conditional entropy will be appropriate for quantifying the uncertainty in question. It was proposed that the RE as determined by uncertainty would be accounted for through intelligibility hypothesis, arousal hypothesis, or probability learning hypothesis.

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Response to Changing Patterns of Events

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Effect of mean and variability of event run length on two-choice learning.

Effect of mean and variability of event run length on two-choice learning.

Performance on complexly patterned binary event sequences.

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Partial Reinforcement Effect

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