"Positive and Negative Value Transfer in a Transitive Inference Task with Pigeons" by Janice Steirn

Presentation

Positive and Negative Value Transfer in a Transitive Inference Task with Pigeons

Paper presented to the Midwestern Psychological Association (1995)

Janice Steirn, Georgia Southern University
Janice E. Weaver, University of Kentucky

Abstract

Pigeons were presented with a transitive inference task with the reinforcement values of the first and last term of the series manipulated. Contrary to the predictions of the Value Transfer Theory, no differences among the groups were found.

Keywords

Value transfer theory,
Transitive inference,
TI

Disciplines

Psychiatry and Psychology and
Psychology

Publication Date

May, 1995

Citation Information

Janice Steirn and Janice E. Weaver. "Positive and Negative Value Transfer in a Transitive Inference Task with Pigeons" Paper presented to the Midwestern Psychological Association (1995)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/janice-steirn/12/