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dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, O
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Chris
dc.contributor.authorBethmont, A
dc.contributor.authorLovibond, PF
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-19T13:24:07Z
dc.date.available2018-04-19T13:24:07Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.identifier.issn2329-8456
dc.identifier.issn2329-8464
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11294
dc.description.abstract

Much of contemporary associative learning research is focused on understanding how and when the associative history of cues affects later learning about those cues. Very little work has investigated the effects of the associative history of outcomes on human learning. Three experiments extended the "learned irrelevance" paradigm from the animal conditioning literature to examine the influence of an outcome's prior predictability on subsequent learning of relationships between cues and that outcome. All 3 experiments found evidence for the idea that learning is biased by the prior predictability of the outcome. Previously predictable outcomes were readily associated with novel predictive cues, whereas previously unpredictable outcomes were more readily associated with novel nonpredictive cues. This finding highlights the importance of considering the associative history of outcomes, as well as cues, when interpreting multistage designs. Associative and cognitive explanations of this certainty matching effect are discussed.

dc.format.extent1-17
dc.format.mediumPrint-Electronic
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA)
dc.subjectassociative learning
dc.subjectreasoning
dc.subjectattention
dc.subjectcausal models
dc.subjectinduction
dc.titleOutcome predictability biases learning.
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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plymouth.issue1
plymouth.volume41
plymouth.publication-statusPublished online
plymouth.journalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/xan0000042
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