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Alana L Scully1, Chris J Mitchell

  • 1University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
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Extinction training in causal learning tasks impairs memory for cue-outcome relationships. This suggests that reduced causal judgments after extinction may stem from forgetting the initial learned association.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Causal Learning

Background:

  • Understanding how humans learn and update causal relationships is crucial in cognitive psychology.
  • Extinction training is a common paradigm used to study the modification of learned associations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of memory in causal judgments following extinction training.
  • To determine if extinction affects the recall of cue-outcome associations.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted using a human causal learning task.
  • Participants underwent an initial training phase pairing cues with outcomes, followed by an extinction phase for experimental cues.
  • Control cues received only the initial training.

Main Results:

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  • Recall of cue-outcome pairings was significantly lower for extinguished cues compared to control cues.
  • Causal attributions to extinguished cues were reduced and correlated with memory performance.
  • Lower causal judgments after extinction were linked to impaired memory of the cue-outcome relationship.

Conclusions:

  • Extinction in causal judgment appears to be partly mediated by a failure to remember the original cue-outcome association.
  • Memory for learned cue-outcome relationships plays a critical role in the effects of extinction training.