Increased Generalization, Stronger Acquisition, or Reduced Extinction? Investigation of the Mechanisms Underlying the Acquisition-in-Multiple-Contexts Effect

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作者
Chao, Wei Jun Marc [1 ]
McConnell, Bridget L. [2 ]
机构
[1] James Cook Univ, Coll Healthcare Sci, Singapore, Singapore
[2] Natl Univ Singapore, 9 Arts Link, Singapore 117572, Singapore
关键词
associative learning; classical conditioning; acquisition; multiple contexts; generalization; renewal; FEAR; RETRIEVAL; RENEWAL; INTERFERENCE; PROTECTION; BEHAVIOR; THERAPY;
D O I
10.1016/j.beth.2023.10.004
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Prior research has demonstrated that conducting acquisition in multiple contexts results in more responding to the point that it can even nullify the benefit of subsequent extinction in multiple contexts on reducing renewal of excitatory responding. The underlying mechanism to explain why this happens has not been systematically examined. Using self-reported expectancy of the outcome, the current study investigates three mechanisms that potentially explain why acquisition in multiple contexts results in more responding-greater generalization, stronger acquisition learning, or slower extinction learning. Participants (N = 180) received discriminative training with a conditioned stimulus (CS+) and outcome pairing and a CS- -> noOutcome pairing in either one or three contexts. This was followed by either extinction treatment in a novel context or no extinction. Finally, testing occurred in the acquisition context, the extinction context, or a novel context. Stronger renewal of extinguished conditioned expectation was observed for participants who received CS+ -> Outcome pairings in three contexts relative to one context. There was no effect of the number of contexts on the strength of the excitatory CS+ -> Outcome association or degree of inhibitory learning that occurred during extinction. This suggests that generalization is the mechanism responsible for the adverse impact to extinction learning when acquisition is conducted in multiple contexts.
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