trial and error learning

...If the animal successfully exits the box, it is given a reward, and if it stays in the box, it is punished. Among the above instrumental conditioning methods, maze learning, problem box learning, and discrimination learning are called trial and error learning because the animal reaches the correct answer by chance while repeating a trial and error response and receives a reward. Learning conditioned reflex [Tsukahara Nakaaki]. ...

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…うまく外に出れば報酬を与え，箱にとどまれば罰を受けるような学習である。以上の道具的条件づけのうち，迷路学習，問題箱学習，弁別学習は動物が試行錯誤的な反応を繰り返すうちに偶然正解に到達し，報酬を受けるので，試行錯誤学習trial and error learningといわれる。学習条件反射【塚原 仲晃】。…

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