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| Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002): |
Causal beliefs and conditioned responses: retrospective revaluation induced by experience and by instruction.
Full Abstract
The author tested causal beliefs and conditioned responses in a task involving retrospective revaluation of the causal status of a target cue with respect to electric shock. Successful revaluation was observed on both self-report shock expectancy and skin conductance, whether the training trials were directly experienced, described, or partly experienced and partly described. The results contradict models that link anticipatory conditioned responses to a separate or earlier process from that underlying explicit causal knowledge. They suggest instead that a single learning process gives rise to propositional knowledge that (a) drives anticipatory responding, (b) forms the basis for self-reported causal beliefs, and (c) can be combined with other knowledge, provided either by experience or symbolically, to generate inferences such as retrospective revaluation.
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Author information
Author/s: Lovibond, Peter F (PF);
Affiliation: School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. P.Lovibond(-atsign-)unsw.edu.au
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 29 (issue 1) : pp 97-106
Dates: Created 2003/01/28; Completed 2003/05/01; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12549586, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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