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Stable individual differences in occasion setting

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
1618-3169
281-295
Glautier, Steven
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Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut
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Glautier, Steven
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Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut
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Glautier, Steven and Brudan, Ovidiu-Ionut (2019) Stable individual differences in occasion setting. Experimental Psychology, 66 (4), 281-295. (doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000453).

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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
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Keywords: associative learning, inhibition, occasion-setting, response-recovery, feature-negative discrimination, reversal, individual differences

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Local EPrints ID: 430284
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430284
ISSN: 1618-3169
PURE UUID: 49fb636d-c31a-462f-820d-9c175234c24b
ORCID for Steven Glautier: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-3268

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Date deposited: 24 Apr 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:46

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