Abstract
Summary The present study hypothesized that acculturation of human Ss affects learning performance of such Ss, but doesn't affect that of infrahuman primates. If this is so, then differences as a function of age should be manifest in human Ss. Ss were 24 college students, aged 19; 24 parochial school students, aged 12; and 24 such students, aged 7. Sex representation was equal in each group. The Ss, using the median test, showed a significant decrease in errors as a function of age on two-trial response perseveration learning set to reinforced cues combined with two-trial response shift learning set to reinforced cues (x = 6.0000, df = 2, p & .05). No significant differences as a function of age were manifest on two-trial response perseveration learning set to nonreinforced cues combined with two-trial response shift learning set to nonreinforced cues (X = 4.6664, df = 2, p > :05). It was concluded that such findings may be attributed to acculturation.
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