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Two experiments demonstrated that rats learn a black-white discrimination more rapidly if they are trained with a larger amount of reward (AOR). This AOR enhancement of performance was found over a variety of pretraining conditions, indicating that the effect has some generality.
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Weisinger, R.S., Parker, L.F. & Bolles, R.C. Effects of amount of reward on acquisition of a black-white discrimination. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 2, 27–28 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327704
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