Abstract
Ten university students each learned four separate six-link response chains, two forward and two backward. All 10 subjects made fewer errors in the forward procedure. It was concluded that the forward procedure is superior because each link of the response chain is acquired by direct reinforcement.
Keywords: response chaining, forward and backward chaining, acquisition, discriminative stimulus hypothesis, key press, humans
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