Transfer from perceptual pretraining as a function of number of stimulus values per dimension

Tighe, Louise S.; Tighe, Thomas J.

doi:10.3758/bf03331235

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“…For example, Tighe and Tighe () gave children who were in their first grade of elementary school a cylinder, showed them a series of different sized cylinders, and asked them to judge whether their cylinder matched the one shown to them. This enabled the children to represent relations between previously unseen values along that same size dimension in a transposition task (see also Tighe & Tighe, ).…”

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Enhancing the Executive Functions of 3‐Year‐Olds in the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

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Executive functions (EFs) enable flexible thinking, something young children are notoriously bad at. For instance, in the dimensional change card sort (DCCS) task, 3-year-olds can sort cards by one dimension (shape), but continue to sort by this dimension when asked to switch (to color). This study tests a prediction of a Dynamic Neural Field (DNF) model that prior experience with the post-switch dimension can enhance 3-year-old’s performance in the DCCS task. In Experiment 1A, a matching game was used to pre-expose 3-year-olds (n=36) to color. This facilitated switching from sorting by shape to color. In Experiment 1B, 3-year-olds (n=18) were pre-exposed to shape. This did not facilitate switching from sorting by color to shape. The DNF model was used to provide a mechanistic explanation for this asymmetry.

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“…This result is also consistent with a transposition study by Johnson and Zara (I960), who found that preliminary training with 2 pairs of stimuli facilitated transposition on both near and far tests more than training with only one pair of stimuli. Similarly, Tighe and Tighe (1968) found nonreinforced experience with 3 or 4 values of color or size led to more rapid discrimination reversal than no pretest exposure or experience with only one value of these dimensions. However, the present transfer data go beyond the theory, which predicts that learning dimensions of difference among members of a set of objects should transfer to new objects having the same dimensions of difference.…”

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Transfer of a same-different concept with letterlike figures.

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1973

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Kindergarten children were trained to make same-different judgments of either 2 or 4 standard figures under either 2 or 4 transformations before being transferred to a novel set of figures. Increasing the number of standards increased errors in training without affecting transfer. Conversely, increasing the number of transformations decreased errors in both initial training and transfer. The results were interpreted as consistent with differentiation theory and suggested facilitation of transfer through increased variety of coded difference responses.

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A Perceptual View of Conceptual Development

Tighe

1978

Perception and Experience

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Transfer from perceptual pretraining as a function of number of stimulus values per dimension

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Enhancing the Executive Functions of 3‐Year‐Olds in the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

Enhancing the Executive Functions of 3‐Year‐Olds in the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

Transfer of a same-different concept with letterlike figures.

A Perceptual View of Conceptual Development

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