Effects of three pre-training procedures on the acquisition and transfer of a matching-to-sample task

Abstract

Three groups of four college students each were exposed to one of three corrective pre-training second-order matching-sample procedures: criterion-learning (CL), performance-decription (PF), and criterion-tracking (CT) Two control groups (corrective and non-corrective control had few errors during the acquisition of a second matching-to-sample task. Correct performance in an extradimensional transfer test was higther for the Group CL. Followed by the Groups PD, non-corrective control, CT, and corrective control. Results are discussed in terms of the variables that facilitate performance criteria.