win–stay, lose–shift strategy

in discrimination learning, a mental or behavioral strategy in which an organism continues to give the same response as long as it is being rewarded for doing so but changes the response once it is no longer being rewarded. The opposite win–shift, lose–stay strategy may also be seen: An organism changes responses when rewarded and maintains the response when not rewarded.

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Psychology term of the day

February 2nd 2025

nonlinear model

any model that attempts to relate the values of an outcome or dependent variable to the explanatory or independent variables using an equation that involves exponents. Compare linear model.