Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning.
In 1973 Mackintosh reported an interference effect that he called learned irrelevance in which exposure to uncorrelated (CS/US) presentation of the unconditional stimulus (US) and the conditioned stimulus (CS) interfered with future Pavlovian conditioning. It has been argued that there is no specifi...
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| description | In 1973 Mackintosh reported an interference effect that he called learned irrelevance in which exposure to uncorrelated (CS/US) presentation of the unconditional stimulus (US) and the conditioned stimulus (CS) interfered with future Pavlovian conditioning. It has been argued that there is no specific interference effect in learned irrelevance; rather the interference is the sum of independent CS and US exposure effects (CS + US). We review previous research on this question and report two new experiments. We conclude that learned irrelevance is a consequence of a contingency learning and a specific learned irrelevance mechanism. Moreover even the independent exposure controls, used in previous experiments to support the CS and US exposure account, provide support for the correlation learning process. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:03c80527-f886-4b90-ae40-8c97f4b608732022-03-26T08:48:13ZLearned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:03c80527-f886-4b90-ae40-8c97f4b60873EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2003Baker, AMurphy, RMehta, RIn 1973 Mackintosh reported an interference effect that he called learned irrelevance in which exposure to uncorrelated (CS/US) presentation of the unconditional stimulus (US) and the conditioned stimulus (CS) interfered with future Pavlovian conditioning. It has been argued that there is no specific interference effect in learned irrelevance; rather the interference is the sum of independent CS and US exposure effects (CS + US). We review previous research on this question and report two new experiments. We conclude that learned irrelevance is a consequence of a contingency learning and a specific learned irrelevance mechanism. Moreover even the independent exposure controls, used in previous experiments to support the CS and US exposure account, provide support for the correlation learning process. |
| spellingShingle | Baker, A Murphy, R Mehta, R Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title | Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title_full | Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title_fullStr | Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title_short | Learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning. |
| title_sort | learned irrelevance and retrospective correlation learning |
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