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Direct linkBeckers, Tom; Miller, Ralph R.; De Houwer, Jan; Urushihara, Kouji – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Forward blocking is one of the best-documented phenomena in Pavlovian animal conditioning. According to contemporary associative learning theories, forward blocking arises directly from the hardwired basic learning rules that govern the acquisition or expression of associations. Contrary to this view, here the authors demonstrate that blocking in…
Descriptors: Animals, Inferences, Cognitive Processes, Classical Conditioning
