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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Learning and Memory

Background:

  • Contingency learning (CL) is crucial for understanding how associations are formed.
  • Distinguishing long-term CL from short-term memory effects is essential for accurate models of learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate long-term contingency learning (CL) in a color-word classification task.
  • To determine if long-term CL is influenced by awareness and propositional knowledge.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an alternating blocks paradigm with distinct color-word contingencies.
  • Analyzed first occurrences of word distractors to isolate long-term CL, minimizing recency effects.
  • Conducted a high-powered, pre-registered study with 110 participants.

Main Results:

  • Provided evidence for reliable long-term color-word CL.
  • Demonstrated that the long-term CL effect is contingent upon awareness of the associations.
  • Showed that propositional knowledge influences genuine long-term CL.

Conclusions:

  • Long-term contingency learning is a robust phenomenon in associative learning.
  • Awareness and explicit knowledge play a significant role in the formation and persistence of long-term learned associations.