An experiment is described in which human Ss were required to learn event series consisting of regularly recurring patterns of events. The event series were similar in that they all had the same amount of information at the first order of estimation, but at higher orders the information per event was different. In Condition 1, Ss (N = 6) each experienced all four event series, in Condition 2 (N = 24) Ss experienced only one event series. It was found that the experimental condition did not affect the shape of the learning curve. There was some indication that the sequential redundancy in an event series did affect the slope of the learning curve and the mean number of correct responses.
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