Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

A stimulus class was generated by applying a fixed set of transformational rules to a prototype, and selected members of this class were presented during acquisition. It was found that children discriminated members of this class from nonmembers. For adults, further distinctions were obtained among the stimuli within the class, as follows: Although the prototype was not presented during acquisition, it was recognized with greater confidence than stimuli from the acquisition set. Furthermore, class members that were not seen during acquisition were recognized on the basis of this prototype. For those class members that had been seen during acquisition, however, there was no evidence that their recognition was based on the prototype. Evidence that these previously seen class members were recognized with greater confidence than new class members indicated that recognition of stimuli from the acquisition set was based on stored copies, or specific memory.

Extent

52 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.

Identifier

FADT13575

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