Response of Rhesus Monkeys to Probabilistic Sequential Dependencies,

Abstract

Forty-nine rhesus monkeys were divided into two treatment groups of 24 and 25 animals. Two identical stimulus objects were presented at each trial in a Wisconsin General Test Apparatus with reward presented for an equal number of trials on the left and right sides. For one group, the sequence of reward placements contained a positive contingency; for the other group, it contained a negative contingency. The distribution of responses for sophisticated rhesus monkeys was found to depend on the statistical structure of the stimulus sequence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1959
Accession Number
ADA035234

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  • John E. Overall
  • W. Lynn Brown

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  • Human Systems

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  • Acquisition
  • Animals
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Discrimination
  • Extinction
  • Learning
  • Monkeys
  • New York
  • Probability
  • Rhesus Monkeys
  • Schools
  • Sequences
  • Training
  • Wisconsin

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  • Biology
  • Psychology

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  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
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