successive trial
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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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trial
noun
uk/traɪəl/us/traɪəl/
the hearing of statements and showing of objects, etc. in a law court to judge if a person is guilty of a crime or to decide a case or a ...
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A new set of larvae was used in eachsuccessivetrial.
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With eachsuccessivetrial, it took the cat, on average, less and less time to escape.
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The suppression was revealed by negative priming, an effect that involved two successive trials.
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The same language of response was allowed in maximally four successive trials.
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The matching and comparison stimuli appeared simultaneously on each trial; the matching side was alternated on successive trials.
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Students were randomly assigned to learn one or the other list of words to a criterion of two perfect successive trials.
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Total scores represented the average percentage by which children were able to reduce their speed on successive trials.
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Given this, language switched on 62% of successive trials on average and stayed the same on 38%.
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The positions of both baits were alternated in successive trials.
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Over successive trials the location of the test light was randomly varied across the three panel positions.
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In shaping, the form of an existing response is gradually changed across successive trials towards a desired target behavior by rewarding exact segments of behavior.
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With experience, ineffective responses occurred less frequently and successful responses occurred more frequently, enabling the cats to escape in less time over successive trials.
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For example, successive trials might require 5 operant responses per unit of reward, then 10 responses per unit of reward, then 15, and so on.
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