Biological significance as a determinant of cue competition

Article Abstract:

Target cues with high biological significance fail to be susceptible to cue competition. Therefore, the presence of target cues with high biological significance leads to the absence of backward blocking in the causal judgements of animals. However, target cues with low biological significance result in the occurrence of backward blocking in the causal judgements of humans. Biologically significant cues may be effective in information processing, which in turn may protect them from the influence of cue competition.

Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology), Learning in animals, Animal learning

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Illusion of control: detecting response-outcome independence in analytic but not in naturalistic conditions

Article Abstract:

Judgment of response-outcome independence is more accurate in an analytical situation than in a naturalistic condition, and naturalistic conditions seem to promote a strong illusion of control. As shown in a study, subjects instructed to obtain more outcomes tend to respond at every opportunity and project an illusion of control. Subjects in the analytic condition, who are asked to find out control over outcome, make accurate judgments of control, maintaining the probability of responding at 0.5 level.

Psychological aspects, Analysis, Hallucinations and illusions, Hallucinations, Control (Psychology)

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Competition between outcomes

Article Abstract:

Research was conducted to examine competition between outcomes in 18 male and 18 female Sprague-Dawley rat subjects. Free access to food was allowed during the time of the experiment while access to water was limited for 10 minutes daily. Results suggest competition between outcomes with predictive testing and predictive training procedures. Observations may present problems for contemporary theories of learning since such theories were aimed at explaining competition between cues.

Rats, Competition (Biology)

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