Context specificity of conditioning in flavor-aversion learning: Extinction and blocking tests

Bonardi, Charlotte, Honey, Robert Colin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6870-1880 and Hall, Geoffrey 1990. Context specificity of conditioning in flavor-aversion learning: Extinction and blocking tests. Animal Learning & Behavior 18 (3) , pp. 229-237. 10.3758/BF03205280

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Abstract

In three experiments using rats as subjects, we investigated the degree to which a conditioned flavor aversion transfers from one context to another. Experiment 1, using a one-trial conditioning procedure, found no effect of a change of context on a conditioned aversion. Experiment 2 employed a multitrial procedure and demonstrated that a conditioned aversion was extinguished more rapidly after a change of context. Experiment 3 showed that context change decreased the effectiveness with which a conditioned flavor could block acquisition of an aversion by a second flavor. It is argued that these data cannot be explained in associative terms, and that they constitute evidence of conditionality in a simple aversive conditioning procedure.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0090-4996
Funders:	Science and Engineering Research Council
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57575

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