OVERTRAINING AND TRANSFER PROCESSES.

TO TEST IMPLICATIONS OF ATTENTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE OVERTRAINING REVERSAL EFFECT (ORE), INDEPENDENT GROUPS OF RATS WERE TRAINED OR OVERTRAINED ON A SIMULTANEOUS DISCRIMINATION IN A T MAZE. IN THE SIMULTANEOUS SHIFT EXPERIMENT, SS WERE SHIFTED EITHER INTRA- OR EXTRADIMENSIONALLY TO ANOTHER SIMULTANEOUS DISCRIMINATION PROBLEM. IN THE SUCCESSIVE SHIFT EXPERIMENT, SS WERE SHIFTED INTRA- OR EXTRADIMENSIONALLY TO A SUCCESSIVE DISCRIMINATION …