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APPRENTISSAGE INVERSE [1 record]

Record 1 2008-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
OBS

Learning the opposite of a discrimination that has previously been acquired; having learned to choose A, not B, from a pair AB, the reversal would be learning to choose B.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Second apprentissage discriminatif dans lequel le stimulus antérieurement positif devient négatif et vice-versa.

CONT

On a trouvé que le surentraînement retardait l'apprentissage inverse chez les chats et les singes ayant une expérience très poussée. [...] En outre, Mackintosh (1969) a confirmé l'idée que le surentraînement facilite l'apprentissage de l'inversion dans des cas où la discrimination est difficile et la récompense importante. (HINCO, 1975, page 703).

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