Two kinds of attention in Pavlovian conditioning: Evidence for a hybrid model of learning. | Zendy

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Two kinds of attention in Pavlovian conditioning: Evidence for a hybrid model of learning.

Author(s) -

Mark Haselgrove,

Guillem R. Esber,

John M. Pearce,

Peter M. Jones

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of experimental psychology animal behavior processes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1939-2184

pISSN - 0097-7403

DOI - 10.1037/a0018528

Subject(s) - conditioning , psychology , classical conditioning , discrimination learning , reinforcement , unconditioned stimulus , operant conditioning , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , medicine

Four appetitive Pavlovian conditioning experiments with rats examined the rate at which the discrimination between compounds AY and AX was solved relative to the discrimination between compounds AY and BY. In Experiments 1 and 2, these discriminations were preceded by training in which A and B were continuously reinforced and X and Y were partially reinforced. Consistent with the Pearce and Hall (1980) model, the results showed that the AY/AX discrimination was solved more readily than the AY/BY discrimination. In Experiments 3 and 4, the discriminations were preceded by feature-positive training in which trials with AX and BY signaled food but trials with X and Y did not. Consistent with the Mackintosh (1975) model, the results showed that the AY/BY discrimination was solved more readily than the AY/AX discrimination. These results are discussed with respect to a hybrid model of conditioning and attention.

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