Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1974

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

An attempt was made to investigate the abstract concept of relation. It was hypothesized that the learning of the relational concept independent of particular stimuli or dimensions is possible even in nonverbal animals. One group of rats was trained on a discrimination that could only be solved with relational learning; a second group of rats was trained on a discrimination that could be solved only with absolute learning. Both groups were then trained on a discrimination that could be learned in either a relational or absolute manner, and transposition testing was done to determine the method utilized. Results indicated animals with original relational learning solved the second discrimination relationally; animal s with original specific learning solved the second discrimination in an absolute manner.

Extent

49 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.

Identifier

FADT13671

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