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All of the sheep learned to discriminate between coloured (yellow and blue) buckets, reaching criterion in the simple discrimination (SD) within 7 sets of 8 discriminations (Fig. 2A).

The animals behave as if they grasp the general concept of similarity, which is an abstraction rather than a simple discrimination.

But simple discrimination seems to have become a relatively smaller obstacle over the last few decades, while socioeconomic disadvantage has become a larger one.

Since the atrocities of September 2001 and last year's bombings in London, a tense relationship has hardened.The complex pattern of resentment that prevails nowadays is in one sense less potent than the simple discrimination of the 1970s.

For example, an animal is trained on a simple discrimination between two objects, A and B. Once the problem has been solved, the experimenter substitutes a new pair of objects, C and D, for the original pair; when the animal has solved this new problem, yet another new pair, E and F, is substituted, and so on.

The authors describe several likely causes: differing amounts of experience (an explanation for 10% of the gap); occupational and industry differences (women are more likely to be in lower-paying service jobs) and simple discrimination (although this is hard to quantify).So why did the gender pay gap narrow in the 1980s and 1990s?

The phenomenon of transposition, first studied in chicks by the Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler, suggests that animals may solve even simple discriminations in ways more complex than the experimenter had imagined.

Many individuals with severe disabilities have difficulty acquiring simple discriminations with standard training procedures, such as differential reinforcement.

Simple discriminations are involved in many functional skills; additionally, they are components of conditional discriminations (identity and arbitrary matching-to-sample), which are involved in a wide array of other important performances.

This may suggest that different fusion approaches may be more appropriate for situations in which accuracy or speed are more important, at least for more simple discriminations, but more exploration is necessary.

We used multiple-probe designs to compare two potentially errorless procedures for teaching simple discriminations among three pairs of photos of preferred items (S+) and colored rectangles (S−) to three youths with severe disabilities.