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  • Cross-Cultural Psychology

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  • Semantically meaningless strings can acquire affective value through conditioning.
  • Previous research suggests grammatical congruence influences generalization of evaluative conditioning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To replicate and extend findings on how CS-US correlations influence evaluations of novel strings.
  • To investigate the role of alphabet and grammar in valence generalization.
  • To test the hypothesis of 'functional equivalence' driven by abstract grammar rules.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments involving evaluative conditioning with letter strings from English and Phoenician alphabets.
  • Manipulation of alphabet, grammar, and element recurrence between conditioning and evaluation phases.
  • Utilized direct evaluation and a 2AFC discrimination task to assess generalization.

Main Results:

  • Evidence for valence generalization across different alphabets when grammars were parallel.
  • Findings suggest strings with similar grammar were perceived as 'functionally equivalent'.
  • A discrimination task supported the abstraction and generalization of grammar rules.

Conclusions:

  • Grammatical structure plays a significant role in abstracting and generalizing learned associations.
  • Functional equivalence can be established based on shared organizational rules, independent of specific elements.
  • This research sheds light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying generalization in associative learning.