Stimulus meaningfulness and unlearning in the A-B, A-C transfer paradigm.

1966 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Bryk ◽  
Donald H. Kausler
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gerlicher ◽  
Merel Kindt

A cue that indicates imminent threat elicits a wide range of physiological, hormonal, autonomic, cognitive, and emotional fear responses in humans and facilitates threat-specific avoidance behavior. The occurrence of a threat cue can, however, also have general motivational effects and affect behavior. That is, the encounter with a threat cue can increase our tendency to engage in general avoidance behavior that does neither terminate nor prevent the threat-cue or the threat itself. Furthermore, the encounter with a threat-cue can substantially reduce our likelihood to engage in behavior that leads to rewarding outcomes. Such general motivational effects of threat-cues on behavior can be informative about the transition from normal to pathological anxiety and could also explain the development of comorbid disorders, such as depression and substance abuse. Despite the unmistakable relevance of the motivational effects of threat for our understanding of anxiety disorders, their investigation is still in its infancy. Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer is one paradigm that allows us to investigate such motivational effects of threat cues. Here, we review studies investigating aversive transfer in humans and discuss recent results on the neural circuits mediating Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer effects. Finally, we discuss potential limitations of the transfer paradigm and future directions for employing Pavlovian-to-Instrumental transfer for the investigation of motivational effects of fear and anxiety.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mazzuca ◽  
Mariagrazia Benassi ◽  
Roberto Nicoletti ◽  
Giuseppe Sartori ◽  
Luisa Lugli

AbstractInfluential lines of research propose dual processes-based explanations to account for both the cognitive cost implied in lying and for that entailed in the resolution of the conflict posited by Simon tasks. The emergence and consistency of the Simon effect has been proved to be modulated by both practice effects and transfer effects. Although several studies provided evidence that the lying cognitive demand may vary as a function of practice, whether and how transfer effects could also play a role remains an open question. We addressed this question with one experiment in which participants completed a Differentiation of Deception Paradigm twice (baseline and test sessions). Crucially, between the baseline and the test sessions, participants performed a training session consisting in a spatial compatibility task with incompatible (condition 1) or compatible (condition 2) mapping, a non-spatial task (condition 3) and a no task one (condition 4). Results speak in favour of a modulation of individual performances by means of an immediate prior experience, and specifically with an incompatible spatial training.


1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-257
Author(s):  
Marla Kahn-Edrington ◽  
Coleman Merryman ◽  
Shelli Helm ◽  
Gary Okowita

Paired-associate transfer in the A-D, A-B paradigm was negative for stimuli of high meaningfulness but not for stimuli of low meaningfulness. This result is consistent with Martin's hypothesis of variable encoding.


2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Lyddy ◽  
Dermot Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Peter J. Hampson

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 103720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Chillà ◽  
Donato Cereghetti ◽  
Isabelle Cayeux ◽  
Christelle Porcherot ◽  
Sylvain Delplanque ◽  
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1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Traxler

The role of interference as an age-related variable in RI and PI as a function of anticipation interval and transfer paradigm was studied by employing different transfer paradigms (A-B, A-C; A-B, C-B; A-B, C-D), and by varying the anticipation interval (2 sec. or 4 sec.). 60 young ( M = 27.42 yr.) and 60 elderly adults ( M = 68.73 yr.) learned 2 lists of paired adjectives to an 8/8 criterion and then recalled the lists by means of a written modified method of free recall. Significant age differences in RI and PI were found, with the old Ss showing disproportionately more RI under the 2-sec. A-B, A-C high interference condition. Neither anticipation interval nor transfer paradigm contributed to age differences in PI. Results indicated that adult age differences in RI and PI as measured by the unpaced modified free-recall procedure essentially agree with those in RI and PI studies using relearning and paced recall tests.


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