Occasion Setting
Associative Learning and Cognition in Animals
American Psychological Association (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-1-55798-490-6 (ISBN)
Description
Recently, investigators have claimed that, whereas in many Pavlovian conditioning paradigms a conditioned stimulus (CS) elicits a conditioned response (CR) because it signals the occurrence of an unconditioned stimulus (US), in other paradigms a CS elicits a CR because it "sets the occasion" for the responding produced by another CS. In the first case, the CS is said to be a "simple CS", in the latter case CS is said to act as a facilitator, that is, an occasion setter. The group of experimental psychologists and theoreticians who authored the chapters in this book discuss the current status of data and theories concerning simple classical conditioning and occasion setting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-490-6 (9781557984906)
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Content
Analogies of Occasion Setting and Pavlovian Conditioning; Conditional Learning - an Associative Analysis; Mechanisms of Feature-Positive and Feature-Negative Discrimination; Learning in an Appetitive Conditioning Paradigm; What Can Nontraditional Features Tell Us About Conditioning and Occasion Setting?; Pavlovian Feature-Ambiguous Discrimination; Perspectives on Modulation - Modulator and Target Focused Views; Contextual Control as Occasion Setting; Hunger Cues as Modulatory Stimuli; The Role of Attention in the Solution of Conditional Discrimination.