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标题：Selectivity in associative learning: a cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena
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作者：Boddez, Yannick ; Haesen, Kim ; Baeyens, Frank 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
页码：1-13
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01305
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：Blocking is the most important phenomenon in the history of associative learning theory: For over 40 years, blocking has inspired a whole generation of learning models. Blocking is part of a family of effects that are typically termed “cue competition” effects. Common amongst all cue competition effects is that a cue-outcome relation is poorly learned or poorly expressed because the cue is trained in the presence of an alternative predictor or cause of the outcome. We provide an overview of the cognitive processes involved in cue competition effects in humans and propose a stage framework that brings these processes together. The framework contends that the behavioral display of cue competition is cognitively construed following three stages that include (1) an encoding stage, (2) a retention stage, and (3) a performance stage. We argue that the stage framework supports a comprehensive understanding of cue competition effects.
关键词：Learning Theory; associative learning; conditioning; cue competition; stimulus competition; blocking; Prediction error