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Acta Colombiana de Psicología
Print version ISSN 0123-9155
Abstract
RODRIGUEZ PEREZ, María Elena; SILVA CASTILLO, Luis Hernando; BAUTISTA CASTRO, Luis René and PENA CORREAL, Telmo Eduardo. EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRAINING IN LEARNING A CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.1, pp.55-67. ISSN 0123-9155. https://doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2015.18.1.6.
An experiment was designed to analyze the functional role of feedback, instructions and observation of a learning model using a second-order matching-to-sample task. Thirty nine students were randomly assigned to one of the three experimental groups which differed among them in the type of training used: direct exposure to the task, observation of a learning model (confederate) or use of precise instructions about the matching criteria. Some participants were offered an economic incentive for participation. It was found that precise instructions promoted a faster acquisition than the other types of training. The use of economic incentives had a differential effect depending on the type of training. It promoted a high performance on the modeling condition but it did not have any effect on the other two types of training. These results suggest that incentives can operate like a motivational or dispositional factor since they affect the establishment of abstract stimulus control.
Keywords : conditional discrimination; modeling; feedback, instructions; linguistic mediated behavior.