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  • Contingency assessment is crucial for learning and decision-making.
  • Understanding how interference and nonreinforcement impact this assessment is key to cognitive models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the effects of associative cue interference and nonreinforcement on contingency assessment.
  • To investigate how these effects vary with the objective cue-outcome contingency.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized variants of the rapid trial streaming procedure.
  • Exposed participants to stimulus streams and assessed their judgments of cue-outcome likelihood.
  • Examined proactive, interspersed, and retroactive interference, alongside latent inhibition, partial reinforcement, and extinction.

Main Results:

  • Interspersed interference was most effective with positive cue-outcome contingencies.
  • Retroactive interference was more efficient than interspersed interference when cue-outcome pairings were few.
  • The efficacy of nonreinforcement strategies (latent inhibition, partial reinforcement, extinction) also depended on the number of cue-outcome pairings.

Conclusions:

  • The impact of associative interference and nonreinforcement on contingency judgments is context-dependent.
  • Extinction did not reduce contingency judgments with few pairings, unlike latent inhibition and partial reinforcement.