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Blocking and reciprocal blocking in predictive and causal learning 

Amegbletor, Duncan, Jr. (2014-07-11)
The blocking effect (Kamin, 1968) demonstrated that responding to a stimulus was attenuated (blocked) if it was presented in compound with a previously trained stimulus. Prior work with non-human animals, which examined ...

Gaze behavior during predictive and diagnostic reasoning 

Duncan, Amegbletor (2019-08-16)
Many current theories of causal learning and reasoning offer causal structure as the answer to a long-standing question: what allows people to distinguish causal relationships from non-causal relationships? One component ...

Initially Held Hypothesis Does Not Affect Encoding of Event Frequencies in Contingency Based Causal Judgment 

Johnson, Justin (2009-11-19)
It has long been known that the event types of the standard 2 x 2 contingency table are used differentially in making contingency judgments. The present experiment sought to investigate the possible role of initially held ...

Preexposing a stimulus may enhance its subsequent extinction 

Kimble, Whitney (2013-12-04)
Extinction, the repeated exposure to a stimulus following conditioning results in decreased conditioned responding (i.e., conditioned fear), has long been used as a therapeutic treatment to attenuate various anxiety ...