Stable individual differences in occasion setting
Stable individual differences in occasion setting
In the current investigation we classified participants as inhibitors or non-inhibitors depending on the extent to which they showed conditioned inhibition in a context that had been used for extinction of a conditioned response. This classification enabled us to predict participant responses in a second experiment which used a different design and a different experimental task. In the second experiment a feature-negative discrimination survived reversal training of the feature to a greater extent in the non-inhibitors than in the inhibitors and this result was supported by Bayesian analyses. We propose that the fundamental distinction between inhibitors and non-inhibitors is based on a tendency to utilise first-order (direct associations) or second-order (occasion-setting) strategies when faced with ambiguous information and that this classification is a stable individual differences attribute.
associative learning, inhibition, occasion-setting, response-recovery, feature-negative discrimination, reversal, individual differences
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Glautier, Steven
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Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut
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September 2019
Glautier, Steven
964468b2-3ad7-40cc-b4be-e35c7dee518f
Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut
181623dc-85bf-4516-8383-c39a7a929464
Glautier, Steven and Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut
(2019)
Stable individual differences in occasion setting.
Experimental Psychology, 66 (4), .
(doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000453).
Abstract
In the current investigation we classified participants as inhibitors or non-inhibitors depending on the extent to which they showed conditioned inhibition in a context that had been used for extinction of a conditioned response. This classification enabled us to predict participant responses in a second experiment which used a different design and a different experimental task. In the second experiment a feature-negative discrimination survived reversal training of the feature to a greater extent in the non-inhibitors than in the inhibitors and this result was supported by Bayesian analyses. We propose that the fundamental distinction between inhibitors and non-inhibitors is based on a tendency to utilise first-order (direct associations) or second-order (occasion-setting) strategies when faced with ambiguous information and that this classification is a stable individual differences attribute.
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 April 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 September 2019
Published date: September 2019
Keywords:
associative learning, inhibition, occasion-setting, response-recovery, feature-negative discrimination, reversal, individual differences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430284
ISSN: 1618-3169
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