Pretraining in stimulus predifferentiation studies can be controlled by equating degree of mastery achieved by different experimental groups or the learning trials given all groups. In some studies, where control has been in terms of trials, degree of mastery achieved in pretraining by different experimental groups relates positively to success achieved by them on the transfer task, obscuring the precise effect of the main experimental variables.
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