The outcome specificity of learned predictiveness effects: parallels between human causal learning and animal conditioning

Le Pelley, Michael Edward, Oakeshott, S. M., Wills, A. J. and McLaren, I. P. L. 2005. The outcome specificity of learned predictiveness effects: parallels between human causal learning and animal conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 31 (2) , pp. 226-236. 10.1037/0097-7403.31.2.226

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Abstract

Two experiments examined the outcome specificity of a learned predictiveness effect in human causal learning. Experiment 1 indicated that prior experience of a cue-outcome relation modulates learning about that cue with respect to a different outcome from the same affective class but not with respect to an outcome from a different affective class. Experiment 2 ruled out an interpretation of this effect in terms of context specificity. These results indicate that learned predictiveness effects in human causal learning index an associability that is specific to a particular class of outcomes. Moreover, they mirror demonstrations of the reinforcer specificity of analogous effects in animal conditioning, supporting the suggestion that, under some circumstances, human causal learning and animal conditioning reflect the operation of common associative mechanisms.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0097-7403
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3354

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