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Augmentation in contingency learning under time pressure
Author(s) -
Vadillo Miguel A.,
Matute Helena
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1348/000712609x477566
Subject(s) - psychology , contingency , blocking (statistics) , cognitive psychology , cognition , task (project management) , blocking effect , experimental research , social psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics education , mathematics , management , economics
Recent research suggests that cue competition effects in human contingency learning, such as blocking, are due to higher‐order cognitive processes. Moreover, some experimental reports suggest that the effect opposite to blocking, augmentation, could occur in experimental preparations that preclude the intervention of reasoning mechanisms. In the present research, we tested this hypothesis by investigating cue interaction effects in an experimental task in which participants had to enter their responses under time pressure. The results show that under these conditions, augmentation, instead of blocking, is observed.