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Roles of context in acquisition of human instrumental learning: Implications for the understanding of the mechanisms underlying context-switch effects
- Source :
- Learning & Behavior. 45:211-227
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Four experiments in human instrumental learning explored the associations involving the context that develop after three trials of training on simple discriminations. Experiments 1 and 4 found a deleterious effect of switching the learning context that cannot be explained by the context-outcome binary associations commonly used to explain context-switch effects after short training in human predictive learning and in animal Pavlovian conditioning. Evidence for context-outcome (Experiment 2), context-discriminative stimulus (Experiment 3), and context-instrumental response (Experiment 4) binary associations was found within the same training paradigm, suggesting that contexts became associated with all the elements of the situation, regardless of whether those associations played a role in a specific context-switch effect detected on performance.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Cognitive Neuroscience
education
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Environment
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Discrimination Learning
Young Adult
Behavioral Neuroscience
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology
Predictive learning
05 social sciences
Association Learning
Classical conditioning
Conditioning, Operant
Female
Instrumental learning
Psychology
Context switch
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15434508 and 15434494
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Learning & Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6b8a07fa7bc3db981b976e50cee756b6