EXPOSURE LEARNING IN YOUNG AND ADULT LABORATORY RATS

被引:15
作者
HALL, G
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York
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10.1016/0003-3472(79)90194-5
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B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
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03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Hooded rats born in the laboratory were exposed in their home cages to objects (cut-out triangles and circles) which were to be used as the stimuli in a subsequent visual simultaneous discrimination task. Control subjects received no prior exposure. In confirmation of the results of Gibson and Walk (1956) it was found that rats given exposure to the stimuli when still immature showed positive transfer to discrimination learning in adulthood. Facilitation of learning was also found in subjects exposed to the stimuli in adulthood. The relevance of these findings to theories of the special effects of early experience and to current theories of the effects of stimulus-exposure is discussed.
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