The effects of habituation training on compound conditioning are not reversed by an associative activation treatment

Dwyer, Dominic M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-5508 and Honey, Robert Colin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6870-1880 2007. The effects of habituation training on compound conditioning are not reversed by an associative activation treatment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 33 (2) , pp. 185-190. 10.1037/0097-7403.33.2.185

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Abstract

Rats received habituation to either 2 compound flavors (AX and BY; the activation group) or a compound and an element alone (AX and Y; the habituation group). They also received additional presentations of Y alone either after (Experiment 1) or intermixed (Experiment 2) with habituation. In the habituation group, A had undergone habituation whereas B had not; in the activation group, both A and B had undergone habituation, but presenting Y alone should result in associative activation of B and that, according to G. Hall (2003), should increase B's efficacy. A supplementary experiment demonstrated that the presentation of Y does activate a representation of B. In both experiments, an aversion was established to AB, and subsequently the habituation group showed a greater aversion to B than to A. However, in neither experiment was there any indication that the activation group showed a greater aversion to B than to A. These results are inconsistent with the suggestion that the associative activation of a stimulus representation in the absence of the stimulus reverses the effects of habituation training.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QL Zoology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	habituation; association; salience modification; perceptual learning
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0097-7403
Related URLs:	http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&...
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 13:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/13864

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