Behavioral and associative effects of differential outcomes in discrimination learning |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Peter?J?UrcuioliEmail author |
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Institution: | Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081, USA. uche@psych.purdue.edu |
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Abstract: | The role of the reinforcer in instrumental discriminations has often been viewed as that of facilitating associative learning
between a reinforced response and the discriminative stimulus that occasions it. The differential-outcome paradigm introduced
by Trapold (1970), however, has provided compelling evidence that reinforcers are also part of what is learned in discrimination
tasks. Specifically, when the availability of different reinforcing outcomes is signaled by different discriminative stimuli,
the conditioned anticipation of those outcomes can provide another source of stimulus control over responding. This article
reviews how such control develops and how it can be revealed, its impact on behavior, and different possible mechanisms that
could mediate the behavioral effects. The main conclusion is that differential-outcome effects are almost entirely explicable
in terms of the cue properties of outcome expectancies—namely, that conditioned expectancies acquire discriminative control
just like any other discriminative or conditional stimulus in instrumental learning. |
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