Three experiments examined the preference for pattern versus random sequences. In all experiments the elements composing the sequences were visual images presented sequentially on a touchscreen. Reinforcement was randomly programmed on .16 of the element presentations for each type of trial. For pattern sequences the elements occurred in the same order and at the same location on each presentation of the sequence. For random sequences the elements could occur in any order on a given trial. The experiments were conducted in two phases. In the first phase, termed forced-choice, subjects, male Silver Kings, were given either a pattern sequence or a random sequence to work on in a given trial. Subjects received this first phase until performance on each type of sequence was equated. In the second phase, termed free-choice, subjects could choose which of the two sequences to work on in each trial. Results indicated that although performance was equated between the two types of sequences in the forced-choice phase, when given the choice subjects selected the pattern sequence on 70 percent of the trials. This finding held in Experiments 1 and 2 although there were procedural differences between these two experiments. In Experiment 3 the reinforcement probability for random sequences was increased to be 50 percent higher than for pattern sequence. In this arrangement subjects chose random sequences on nearly 83 percent of the free-choice trials, indicating that the preference for pattern sequences was not intractable. Results suggest that the preference for pattern sequences that was observed when reinforcement was equated between the two types of sequences may have been the result of the added information concerning forthcoming element presentations that was available from pattern sequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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模式有一些东西：隐式学习中模式和随机序列之间的选择。

三个实验检查了模式与随机序列的偏好。在所有实验中，组成序列的元素都是按顺序呈现在触摸屏上的视觉图像。每种试验类型的 0.16 个元素演示中随机编程强化。对于模式序列，元素以相同的顺序出现在序列的每个表示上的相同位置。对于随机序列，元素可以在给定试验中以任何顺序出现。实验分两个阶段进行。在第一阶段，称为强制选择，受试者，男性 Silver Kings，被给予模式序列或随机序列以在给定试验中工作。受试者接受第一阶段，直到每种序列的表现相等。在第二阶段，称为自由选择，受试者可以选择在每次试验中处理两个序列中的哪一个。结果表明，尽管在强制选择阶段两种类型的序列之间的表现是相等的，但当给予选择时，受试者在 70% 的试验中选择了模式序列。这一发现在实验 1 和 2 中成立，尽管这两个实验之间存在程序差异。在实验 3 中，随机序列的强化概率比模式序列提高了 50%。在这种安排下，受试者在近 83% 的自由选择试验中选择了随机序列，这表明对模式序列的偏好并非难以解决。结果表明，当两种类型的序列之间的强化相等时，观察到的对模式序列的偏好可能是关于从模式序列中获得的即将到来的元素呈现的附加信息的结果。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。