In this experiment, students were asked to accurately guess how allergic Mrs. X was to a particular type of food. Phase 1 allowed participants to randomly guess the allergy level of a food without any prior notice of how susceptible Mrs. X was to each food, only learning after they had guessed. The lack of reinforcement of the correct answer for A in phase 1 made it less likely to remember it in phase 2, whereas they had time to get the right answer in their minds for cue B.
This leads to the conclusion in the results that reinforcement is ...
