Evaluating Concept Formation in Multiple Exemplar Training with Musical Chords

The present study evaluated a teaching procedure based on Multiple Exemplar Training (MET) to establish conditional relations between musical chords and printed words. In addition, generalization tests were provided to participants to assess concept formation processes for different types of musical chords (e.g., major, minor, consonant, and dissonant). Forty college students were equally distributed into two groups. Group 1 was taught the...