1985 Volume 33 Issue 3 Pages 261-266
The present study was designed to investigate whether or not a cue-cluster, as advocated by Schaeffer & Ellis (1970), was established as a result of overtraining. Subjects were 80 young children with a mean age of five years and one month. they were given two independent discrimination tasks either to the criterion (five successive correct responses on each task) or under some overtraining conditions of OT-6, OT-12, OT-18, and OT-24. Completing a given overtraining, they were given 6 test trials with a pair of complex stimuli consisting of two positive stimuli and two negative stimuli used in the original learning. The main results were as follows: The number of correct responses on test increased as the amount of overtraining increased. The discrimination performance (ratio of correct responses) on test of Group OT-24 was not inferior to the one during overtraining, but those of other groups were significantlly inferior to the one during overtraining. These results suggested that the cue-cluster may be established as a result of overtraining.
