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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
Peer reviewedKehoe, E. James – Psychological Review, 1988
A detailed description of a layered network model is provided, with computer simulations of key associative learning phenomena and predictions generated from the model. The model is compared to more conventional theories of learning to learn and configural learning. (SLD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
