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Factors in the Learning Behavior of the Albino Rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Neil J. F. Van Steenberg
Neil J. F. Van Steenberg*
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From the Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago
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Abstract

The table of intercorrelations published by Dr. R. L. Thorndike in the Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1935, 17, No. 1, has been reanalyzed into ten factors. Rotation of the reference vectors resulted in a configuration which, for all practical purposes, may be said to show a simple structure and (except for one variable on one factor) a positive manifold. Five of the factors can be interpreted with some confidence, one only with considerable caution; three factors are specific to the apparatus employed, and for the one remaining factor, no interpretation is attempted; it appears to be a residual plane.

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Psychometrika , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 1939 , pp. 179 - 200
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Copyright © 1939 Psychometric Society

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