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The importance of contextual elements in taste‐aversion learning
Author(s) -
ARCHER TREVOR,
SJÖDÉN PER OLOV,
NILSSON LARSGÖRAN
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1984.tb01016.x
Subject(s) - taste aversion , saccharin , conditioning , psychology , unconditioned stimulus , classical conditioning , stimulus (psychology) , cognitive psychology , neutral stimulus , animal learning , developmental psychology , neuroscience , taste , medicine , statistics , mathematics
The effect of exteroceptive contextual cues, presented during the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) intervals, upon the later development of conditioned saccharin aversions was studied in two experiments. It was found that the presence of the contextual cues during the CS + US and CS intervals resulted in a greater degree of saccharin aversion; the presence of these cues during the US interval was relatively less important. These findings are discussed in terms of conditioning models and retrieval models derived from animal learning and human information‐processing data.