Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects.
Defining cues for instrumental causality are the temporal, spatial and contingency relationships between actions and their effects. In this study, we carried out a series of causal learning experiments that systematically manipulated time and context in positive and negative contingency conditions....
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| description | Defining cues for instrumental causality are the temporal, spatial and contingency relationships between actions and their effects. In this study, we carried out a series of causal learning experiments that systematically manipulated time and context in positive and negative contingency conditions. In addition, we tested participants categorized as non-dysphoric and mildly dysphoric because depressed mood has been shown to affect the processing of all these causal cues. Findings showed that causal judgements made by non-dysphoric participants were contextualized at baseline and were affected by the temporal spacing of actions and effects only with generative, but not preventative, contingency relationships. Participants categorized as dysphoric made less contextualized causal ratings at baseline but were more sensitive than others to temporal manipulations across the contingencies. These effects were consistent with depression affecting causal learning through the effects of slowed time experience on accrued exposure to the context in which causal events took place. Taken together, these findings are consistent with associative approaches to causal judgement. Copyright 2013 Msetfi et al. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d7fa72f8-ca13-4823-b631-f164f1751fd32022-03-27T08:44:53ZContext and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d7fa72f8-ca13-4823-b631-f164f1751fd3EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordPublic Library of Science2013Msetfi, RWade, CMurphy, RDefining cues for instrumental causality are the temporal, spatial and contingency relationships between actions and their effects. In this study, we carried out a series of causal learning experiments that systematically manipulated time and context in positive and negative contingency conditions. In addition, we tested participants categorized as non-dysphoric and mildly dysphoric because depressed mood has been shown to affect the processing of all these causal cues. Findings showed that causal judgements made by non-dysphoric participants were contextualized at baseline and were affected by the temporal spacing of actions and effects only with generative, but not preventative, contingency relationships. Participants categorized as dysphoric made less contextualized causal ratings at baseline but were more sensitive than others to temporal manipulations across the contingencies. These effects were consistent with depression affecting causal learning through the effects of slowed time experience on accrued exposure to the context in which causal events took place. Taken together, these findings are consistent with associative approaches to causal judgement. Copyright 2013 Msetfi et al. |
| spellingShingle | Msetfi, R Wade, C Murphy, R Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title | Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title_full | Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title_fullStr | Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title_short | Context and time in causal learning: contingency and mood dependent effects. |
| title_sort | context and time in causal learning contingency and mood dependent effects |
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