The experiment was designed to evaluate (a) whether gradually adding new information to a display (pacing) is an efficient way to teach Ss to identify a complex display and (b) whether pacing would produce greater stimulus predifferentiation as measured by more accurate detections of a change when the change was made in a display containing the same matetial. The results for 16 Ss indicate there is positive transfer between steps in the pacing procedure and that pacing produces more accurate detection of change. It may be that an independent skill is acquired as the result of pacing which is responsible for the improved ability to detect change.
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