Effects of configurational training on simple conditional discrimination tasks

Abstract

The effects of training with different stimulus configurations in a simple conditional discrimination in infants were evalatued. Two groups of six subjects were formed. One (Group E), was trained in four different stimulus configurations (one configuration for each phase) and exposed to one session of intra-dimentional, extra-dimentional and extra-configurational transfer tests after each training phase. The second group (Group SE) was only trained in one stimulus configuration but was exposed to the same tests that group E. Results show that stimulus configuration is not a relevant factor in infant performance in conditional discrimination tasks.