Five groups of rats were given 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 overtraining trials in a T-maze to determine the effects on the acquisition and reversal of place and response habits. Increasing overtraining produced more response than place learners, but there was no facilitative effect in reversal learning with increased overtraining, nor was there a differential effect on the ease of reversal of place or response learning.
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