論文

査読有り 筆頭著者 責任著者
2017年4月1日

Causal superlearning arising from interactions among cues

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
  • Kouji Urushihara
  • ,
  • Ralph R. Miller

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開始ページ
183
終了ページ
196
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1037/xan0000137
出版者・発行元
American Psychological Association Inc.

Superconditioning refers to supernormal responding to a conditioned stimulus (CS) that sometimes occurs in classical conditioning when the CS is paired with an unconditioned stimulus (US) in the presence of a conditioned inhibitor for that US. In the present research, we conducted 4 experiments to investigate causal superlearning, a phenomenon in human causal learning analogous to superconditioning. Experiment 1 demonstrated superlearning relative to appropriate control conditions. Experiment 2 showed that superlearning wanes when the number of cues used in an experiment is relatively large. Experiment 3 determined that even when relatively many cues are used, superlearning can be observed provided testing is conducted immediately after training, which is problematic for explanations by most contemporary learning theories. Experiment 4 found that ratings of a superlearning cue are weaker than those to the training excitor which gives basis to the conditioned inhibitor-like causal preventor used during causal superlearning training. This is inconsistent with the prediction by propositional reasoning accounts of causal cue competition, but is readily explained by associative learning models. In sum, the current experiments revealed some weaknesses of both the associative and propositional reasoning models with respect to causal superlearning.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000137
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28383940
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1037/xan0000137
  • ISSN : 2329-8464
  • ISSN : 2329-8456
  • PubMed ID : 28383940
  • SCOPUS ID : 85017158323

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