Sometimes-Competing Retrieval (SOCR): A Formalization of the Comparator Hypothesis

Psychological Review

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 759-783

  Stout, Steven C ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^b  

^a JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compound conditioning; cue competition; Pavlovian conditioning models; retrospective revaluation; second order conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34548859797     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.3.759     Document Type: Article

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