Overshadowing and the outcome-alone exposure effect counteract each other.
Three conditioned lever-press suppression experiments with rats investigated the interaction between overshadowing and outcome-alone exposure effects. Experiment 1 found in first-order conditioning that combined overshadowing and outcome-preexposure treatments attenuate the response deficit produced by either treatment alone. Experiments 2 and 3 investigated the interaction between overshadowing and outcome pre- and postexposure effects in sensory preconditioning, varying retention intervals to engage recency and primacy effects with respect to treatment order. Contrary to when a solitary cue is conditioned, responding to a cue conditioned in compound appeared positively correlated with the context's associative status. These findings suggested that some of the basic laws of learning applicable to cues conditioned alone do not similarly apply to a component of a compound cue.
Urushihara
Kouji
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Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA.
Miller
Ralph R
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005260:Female; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule; D013997:Time Factors