. The effect of various temporal arrangements of practice on the mastery of an animal maze of moderate complexity. Animal intelligence. MASTERY OF AN ANIMAL MAZE 29 ing the learning process, percentage of animals mastering the maze according to different norms, and percentage of animals making errorless runs from trial to trial. As has been brought out, certain of these indices are more adequate and valid than others, although obviously all are more or less closely interre- lated. All methods of treating the results tend to confirm our main conclusion that temporal distribution of practice, wi
. The effect of various temporal arrangements of practice on the mastery of an animal maze of moderate complexity. Animal intelligence. MASTERY OF AN ANIMAL MAZE 29 ing the learning process, percentage of animals mastering the maze according to different norms, and percentage of animals making errorless runs from trial to trial. As has been brought out, certain of these indices are more adequate and valid than others, although obviously all are more or less closely interre- lated. All methods of treating the results tend to confirm our main conclusion that temporal distribution of practice, within the limits investigated, has no measurable influence on efficiency of learning a maze of this degree of difficulty. It is true that. / i 3 If ft 7 f 1 IB II IX li tH If ft IT li If *^ Figure II Based on Percentage of Each Group Running Maze without Error on Each Trial of the Series Group C (1 per day). Group A (20 in one day). Group B (2 per day). the one trial per day group (C) seems to be somewhat superior to all the other groups in speed and consistency of progress by the various criteria used but, as we have seen, this advantage is not large enough to show up in the total error and time scores. Furthermore, the small size of this group taken in conjunction with the greater variability of the measures, ren- ders this apparent advantage highly questionable. The explanation of these results would seem clearly to lie in the fact that a maze of moderate difficulty was used in our. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Sidney Albert, b. 1892. New York
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