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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July 27th 2024

fetal tobacco syndrome (FTS)

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