Enhancement of responding to A after A+/AX+ training: Challenges for a comparator theory of learning. | Zendy

Guillem R. Esber | Zendy; John M. Pearce | Zendy; Mark Haselgrove | Zendy

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Enhancement of responding to A after A+/AX+ training: Challenges for a comparator theory of learning.

Author(s) -

Guillem R. Esber,

John M. Pearce,

Mark Haselgrove

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of experimental psychology animal behavior processes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1939-2184

pISSN - 0097-7403

DOI - 10.1037/a0014908

Subject(s) - associative property , associative learning , psychology , conditioning , classical conditioning , blocking effect , unconditioned stimulus , comparator , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , association (psychology) , neuroscience , developmental psychology , pure mathematics , mathematics , statistics , psychotherapist , physics , quantum mechanics , voltage

Two appetitive Pavlovian conditioning experiments with rats investigated the associative changes that A undergoes in an A+/AX+ blocking procedure. Conditioned responding to A was enhanced relative to stimulus B, which had been conditioned in isolation (B+). This result was interpreted in terms of the formation of a within-compound association between A and X. The results of Experiment 2 supported this conclusion by demonstrating that X had associative strength of its own and, furthermore, that extinguishing X resulted in a similar level of responding to A and B. These results are considered in terms of retrospective revaluation theories of learning.

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