Prolonged practice yields no evidence of improvement in discrimination for the intensity of sound¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1922 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Extended training on intensity-of-sound discrimination yielded no evidence of improvement with practice under controlled conditions. → Seashore 1922

Evidence¶

Seashore 1922¶

Seashore, C. E. (1922). Elementary tests in psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://archive.org

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Kwei Tan's training experiment took thirteen advanced students through repeated intensity-of-sound discrimination measurements; six continued for twenty hour-periods each and six for thirteen to seventeen periods. The article reports "no evidence of improvement with -practice" despite individual fluctuations in the practice course.

"where we had control of the conditions and there were no disturbing influences present, this amount of training yielded no evidence of improvement with -practice."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Experimental studies report transfer of training across diverse operations, from sensory discrimination to memorizing — related
• Children's ability to discriminate between correct and incorrect answers did not change over training regardless of group — related
• Errorless discrimination training avoids emotional responses and yields more effective transfer than errorful training (Terrace's pigeon studies) — reports the opposite