Relationship of False Recognition and Paired-Associate Learning Ability with Learning of Reversal and Nonreversal Shift

Abstract

43 Ss were administered a false-recognition task, and a paired-associate learning task. Half the Ss were given a reversal shift task and the rest a nonreversal task. The paired-associate task was found to be unrelated to both the reversal and nonreversal tasks, whereas the false-recognition task was significantly related to the reversal shift but not to the nonreversal task. False recognition was also significantly related to the initial discrimination learned in the reversal shift, nonreversal shift paradigm. These results are interpreted in terms of a two-stage recognition model.