Table 2.
Mean percentage and standard deviation of complementary confusion errors for all 4 nonreinforced categories and for all 8 birds in Experiment 1 (chance level at 25%). Bold font indicates the complementary category (S−s from the same category as S+s).
Reinforced category | Nonreinforced Category | |||||||
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Car | Chair | Flower | Person | |||||
M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
Car | 44.1* | 8.0 | 14.8! | 4.0 | 18.9! | 5.6 | 22.3 | 4.6 |
Chair | 13.5! | 2.9 | 35.3* | 6.5 | 30.0 | 9.7 | 21.2! | 4.1 |
Flower | 10.9! | 2.7 | 21.4 | 4.4 | 49.8* | 7.2 | 17.9! | 6.3 |
Person | 17.1! | 4.9 | 20.3! | 4.3 | 21.8 | 5.5 | 40.8* | 8.9 |
Significantly above chance, two-tailed t-test, n = 8, p < 0.05
Significantly below chance, two-tailed t-test, n = 8, p < 0.05