Loss of controllability in appetitive situations interferes with subsequent learning in aversive situations |
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Authors: | Akihito Sonoda Takahiro Okayasu Hisashi Hirai |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Sophia University, 102, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract: | In two experiments, we examined whether or not a loss of control over food availability would interfere with subsequent two-way shuttle-escape learning. Rats that had experienced loss of control over food delivery were impaired in their acquisition of a shuttle-escape response, relative to the response-contingent and the continuous-reinforcement control rats (in Experiments 1 and 2) and to the lack-of-control and home cage control rats (in Experiment 2). Rats that had received noncontingent food delivery without a prior history of control over food exhibited poorer performance than did the home cage control rats. Moreover, loss of control resulted in a larger interference effect than did lack of control, supporting the view that the learning of response-outcome noncontingency is the main determinant of the interference effect. |
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