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REPEATED ACQUISITION OF RESPONSE SEQUENCES: THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION
Citation:
Cohn, J. AND M. Paule. REPEATED ACQUISITION OF RESPONSE SEQUENCES: THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-95/391.
Description:
Repeated acquisition (RA) procedures are behavioral preparations in which subjects are required to learn new response sequences with each experimental session. uch procedures avoid problems inherent in non-RA learning procedures. or example, with traditional paradigms, as the subject masters the task, one begins to measure performance of a learned response rather than learning itself. pecific advantages to using RA procedures also include 1. strength of the within-subjects design, including the ability to establish dose effect curves within individual subjects; 2. the ability to assess learning phenomena over extended periods of time; 3. the ability to use chronic dosing regimens; 4. the ability to assess treatments with permanent or long-lasting effects. ifficulties include the relatively long training period often receding attainment of a stable baseline of acquisition. his review examines the history of the RA paradigm, with an mphasis on procedural comparisons.