Occasion setting : associative learning and cognition in animals / edited by Nestor A. Schmajuk, Peter C. Holland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmajuk, Nestor.

Holland, Peter C., 1951-

American Psychological Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning in animals.

Cognition in animals.

Classical conditioning.

Physical Description:

xxi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1998.

Summary:

Recently, investigators have claimed that, whereas in many Pavlovian conditioning paradigms a conditioned stimulus (CS) elicits a conditioned response (CR) because it signals the occurrence of an unconditioned stimulus (US), in other paradigms a CS elicits a CR because it "sets the occasion" for the responding produced by another CS. In the first case, the CS is said to be a "simple CS", in the latter case CS is said to act as a facilitator, that is, an occasion setter. The eminent group of experimental psychologists and theoreticians who authored the chapters of this book discuss the current status of data and theories concerning simple classical conditioning and occasion setting.

Contents:

Part I Properties of Occasion Setters

1. Analogies Between Occasion Setting and Pavlovian Conditioning / Ralph R. Miller, Philippe Oberling

2. Conditional Learning: An Associative Analysis / Charlotte Bonardi

3. Mechanisms of Feature-Positive and Feature-Negative Discrimination Learning in an Appetitive Conditioning Paradigm / Mark E. Bouton, James B. Nelson

4. What Can Nontraditional Features Tell Us About Conditioning and Occasion Setting? / Darlene M. Skinner, Murray J. Goddard, Peter C. Holland

Part II Conditional Discriminations

5. Pavlovian Feature-Ambiguous Discrimination / Sadahiko Nakajima

6. Perspectives on Modulation: Modulator- and Target-Focused Views / Dale Swartzentruber

7. Contextual Control as Occasion Setting / Geoffrey Hall, Esther Mondragon

8. Hunger Cues as Modulatory Stimuli / T. L. Davidson

9. The Role of Attention in the Solution of Conditional Discriminations / John M. Pearce, David N. George, Edward S. Redhead

Part III Formal Models

10. Conditioned Stimuli Are Occasion Setters / John W. Moore, June-Seek Choi

11. A Temporally Sensitive Recurrent Network Model of Occasion Setting / James Zackheim, Catherine Myers, Mark Gluck

12. Occasion Setting: Influences on Conditioned Emotional Responses and Configural Cues / Susan E. Brandon, Allan R. Wagner

13. A Real-Time Theory of Pavlovian Conditioning: Simple Stimuli and Occasion Setters / Jeffrey A. Lamoureux, Catalin V. Buhusi, Nestor A. Schmajuk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1557984905

OCLC:

38162821