Contrasting Predictions of Extended Comparator Hypothesis and Acquisition-Focused Models of Learning Concerning Retrospective Revaluation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-147

  McConnell, Bridget L ^a   Urushihara, Kouji ^b   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

Author keywords

comparator hypothesis; modified SOP; relative validity; retrospective revaluation; revised Rescorla Wagner

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 76849091380     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015774     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Annau Z., and Kamin L.J. The conditioned emotional response as a function of intensity of the US. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 54 (1961) 428-432
2. Blaisdell A.P., Bristol A.S., Gunther L.M., and Miller R.R. Overshadowing and latent inhibition counteract each other: Support for the comparator hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 24 (1998) 335-351
3. Blaisdell A.P., Gunther L.M., and Miller R.R. Recovery from blocking achieved by extinguishing the blocking CS. Animal Learning & Behavior 27 (1999) 63-76
4. Cole R.P., Barnet R.C., and Miller R.R. Effect of relative stimulus validity: Learning or performance deficit?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 21 (1995) 293-303
5. Denniston J.C., Miller R.R., and Matute H. Biological significance as a determinant of cue competition. Psychological Science 7 (1996) 325-331
6. Denniston J.C., Savastano H.I., Blasidell A.P., and Miller R.R. Cue competition as a retrieval deficit. Learning and Motivation 34 (2003) 1-31
7. Denniston J.C., Savastano H.I., and Miller R.R. The extended comparator hypothesis: Learning by contiguity, responding by relative strength. In: Mowrer R.R., and Klein S.B. (Eds). Handbook of contemporary learning theories (2001), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 65-117
8. Dickinson A., and Burke J. Within-compound associations mediate the retrospective revaluation of causality judgments. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 49B (1996) 60-80
9. Holland P.C., and Forbes D.T. Representation-mediated extinction of conditioned flavor-aversions. Learning and Motivation 13 (1982) 454-471
10. Kaufman M.A., and Bolles R.C. A nonassociative aspect of overshadowing. Bulleting of the Psychonomic Society 18 (1981) 318-320
11. Mackintosh N.J. A theory of attention: Variations in the associability of stimuli with reinforcement. Psychological Review 82 (1975) 276-298
12. Matzel L.D., Schachtman T.R., and Miller R.R. Recovery of an overshadowed association achieved by extinction of the overshadowing stimulus. Learning and Motivation 16 (1985) 398-412
13. Miller R.R., Hallam S.C., and Grahame N.J. Inflation of comparator stimuli following CS training. Animal Learning & Behavior 18 (1990) 434-443
14. Miller R.R., and Matute H. Biological significance in forward and backward blocking: Resolution of a discrepancy between animal conditioning and human causal judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 125 (1996) 370-386
15. Miller R.R., and Maztel L.D. The comparator hypothesis: A response rule for the expression of associations. In: Bower G.H. (Ed). The psychology of learning and motivation 22 (1988), Academic Press, San Diego, CA 51-92
16. Myers J.M., and Wells A.D. Research design and statistical analysis. 2nd ed. (2003), Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ
17. Oberling P., Bristol A.S., Matute H., and Miller R.R. Biological significance attenuates overshadowing, relative validity, and degraded contingency effect. Animal Learning & Behavior 28 (2000) 172-186
18. Pearce J.M., and Hall G. A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli. Psychological Review 87 (1980) 532-552
19. Rescorla R.A., and Wagner A.R. A theory of Pavlovian conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement. In: Black A.H., and Prokasy W.F. (Eds). Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory (1972), Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 64-99
20. Sissons H.T., and Miller R.R. Overexpectation and trial massing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 35 (2009) 186-196
21. Stout S.C., Chang R., and Miller R.R. Trial spacing is a determinant of cue interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 29 (2003) 23-38
22. Stout S.C., and Miller R.R. Sometimes-competing retrieval (SOCR): A formalization of the comparator hypothesis. Psychological Review 114 (2007) 759-783
23. Urushihara K., Wheeler D.S., Pineño O., and Miller R.R. An extended comparator hypothesis account of superconditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 31 (2005) 184-198
24. Van Hamme L.J., and Wasserman E.A. Cue competition in causality judgments: The role of nonpresentation of compound stimulus elements. Learning and Motivation 25 (1994) 127-151
25. Wagner A.R. SOP: A model of automatic memory processing in animal behavior. In: Spear N.E., and Miller R.R. (Eds). Information processing in animals: Memory mechanisms (1981), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 5-47
26. Wagner A.R., Logan F.A., Haberlandt K., and Price T. Stimulus selection in animal discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology 76 (1968) 171-180
27. Wheeler D.S., and Miller R.R. Determinants of cue interaction. Behavioural Processes 78 (2008) 191-203