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| Journal of Experimental… | 3 |
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Peer reviewedGrant, Douglas S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1975
The purpose of the present study was to investigate interference in pigeon short-term memory using an intertrial interference paradigm. (Author)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Inhibition, Memory
Peer reviewedGrant, Douglas S.; Roberts, William A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1976
A delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) task was used to test several hypotheses about sources of retroactive inhibition (RI) in pigeon short-term memory. (Editor)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Charts, Experimental Psychology, Inhibition
Peer reviewedRoberts, William A.; Grant, Douglas S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1978
Grant and Roberts found that houselight presented throughout the delay period on a delayed matching-to-sample task caused pigeons to demonstrate a much lower level of accuracy than was found when the delay was spent in darkness. A series of experiments was carried out to examine possible mechanisms responsible for this light-induced retroactive…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
