Does evaluative learning rely on the perception of contingency? Manipulating contingency and US density during evaluative conditioning

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 391-399

  Kattner, Florian ^a   Ellermeier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Contingency awareness; Contingency judgments; Contingency learning; Evaluative conditioning; Outcome density effect; Propositional learning; US density

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 80052007512     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000108     Document Type: Article

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