Extinction in human learning and memory
Authors:
Alana L. Scully a;
Chris J. Mitchell a
| Affiliation: | a University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
DOI:
10.1080/17470210802161406
Publication Frequency:
12 issues per year
Published in:
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,
Volume
61,
Issue
10
October
2008
, pages 1472
- 1478
First Published:
October
2008
Subjects:
Cognitive Psychology;
Comparative Psychology;
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Also incorporating: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
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Abstract
In two experiments, participants were given extinction training in a human causal learning task. In both experiments, three critical experimental cues were paired with different outcomes in a first phase of training and were then extinguished in a second phase. Three control cues were given the same treatment in the first phase of training, but were not then presented in the second phase. Participants' ability to correctly identify the outcome with which each cue had been paired in the first phase was lower for extinguished than for control cues. Causal attributions to the extinguished cues were also lower than those to the control cues, a difference that correlated with outcome memory. These data are consistent with the idea that extinction in causal judgement is due, at least in part, to a failure to remember the cue-outcome relationship encoded in the first phase of training.
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| Keywords: Extinction; Memory; Learning; Causal judgement; Causal learning |
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