Overexpectation in appetitive Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning

Animal Learning & Behavior - Tập 26 - Trang 351-360 - 1998
K. Matthew Lattal1, Sadahiko Nakajima1
1Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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In three experiments that used appetitive preparations with rats, we examined the effects of reinforcing a compound consisting of two previously reinforced stimuli on subsequent responding to those stimuli. Experiment 1 showed that a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus given this treatment evoked fewer magazine entries when presented alone than did a reinforced stimulus that did not receive the compound treatment. Experiment 2 examined inhibition of delay and generalization decrement accounts for the results of Experiment 1. Experiment 3 extended this finding to an instrumental learning paradigm.

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