Association Learning

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Second-order backward blocking and unovershadowing in human causal learning.

De Houwer and Beckers (in press, Experiment 1) recently demonstrated that ratings about the relation between a target cue T2 and an outcome are higher when training involves CT1+ and T1T2+ followed by C+ trials than when training involves CT1+ and T1T2+ ...
Jan De Houwer, Tom Beckers (Exp Psychol, 2002)
second-order-backward-blocking-unovershadowing-human-causal-learning.asp

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Intimacy, concreteness, and the "self-reference effect".

Reference to oneself during incidental learning of words frequently results in better recall performance than reference to other persons. However, this effect occurs under different conditions with differing strength, and sometimes it is even reversed. ...
Uwe Czienskowski, Stefanie Giljohann (Exp Psychol, 2002)
intimacy-concreteness-self-reference-effect.asp

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Interhemispheric communication of abstract and specific visual-form information.

Pairs of letters were compared after being viewed in different visual fields (i.e. across-hemispheres, AH) or in the same visual field (i.e. within-hemisphere, WH). In an abstract-category comparison task, participants decided whether two letter ...
Chad J Marsolek, Christopher D Nicholas, David R Andresen (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
interhemispheric-communication-abstract-specific-visual-form.asp

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Impaired fear conditioning in Alzheimers disease.

Classical conditioning of the fear response is a basic form of nondeclarative (nonconscious) memory that mediates both normal and pathological responses to aversive stimuli. Because fear conditioning critically depends on the amygdala, a medial temporal ...
Stephan Hamann, Elena S Monarch, Felicia C Goldstein (Neuropsychologia, 2002)
impaired-fear-conditioning-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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What does the implicit association test measure? A test of the convergent and discriminant validity of prejudice-related IATs.

Drawing on recent criticism of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the present study tested the convergent and discriminant validity of two prejudice-related IATs to corresponding explicit prejudice measures in a German student sample (N = 61). ...
Bertram Gawronski (Exp Psychol, 2002)
implicit-association-test-measure-test-convergent-discriminant.asp