{"title":"The Redundancy Effect on Human Predictive Learning: Evidence against a Propositional Interpretation","authors":"Jorge Andrés Pinto Pinto, Daniel E. Núñez","doi":"10.32348/1852.4206.V12.N3.25293","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl efecto de redundancia es el hallazgo de un mayor aprendizaje a un estimulo X entrenado en un procedimiento de bloqueo A+ AX+, que a un estimulo Y entrenado en un procedimiento de discriminacion BY+ CY-. Estos hallazgos son nuevos y teoricamente desafiantes para todas las teorias del condicionamiento que calculan el aprendizaje en base a un error comun. Es por ello que examinamos alternativamente la posibilidad que el fenomeno sea el resultado de un razonamiento proposicional. En un experimento, replicamos el efecto basico y encontramos que la adicion de instrucciones sobre la ocurrencia de las consecuencias a un nivel sub-maximo no tiene un efecto significativo sobre el efecto de redundancia. Estos hallazgos son discutidos en relacion con una aproximacion proposicional y asociativa basada en el supuesto que los estimulos experimentales comparten un elemento comun. EnglishThe redundancy effect is the finding of greater learning when an X stimulus is trained in an A+ AX+ blocking procedure, than when a Y stimulus is trained in a BY+ CY- discrimination procedure. These findings are new and theoretically challenging for all conditioning theories that calculate learning based on a common error. For this reason, we alternatively examined the possibility that the phenomenon is the result of a propositional reasoning. In an experiment, we replicated the basic effect and we found out that the addition of instructions on the occurrence of the consequences at a submaximal level does not have a significant impact on the redundancy effect. These findings are discussed with regard to a propositional and associative approach based on the assumption that the experimental stimuli share a common feature.","PeriodicalId":53986,"journal":{"name":"Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento","volume":"12 1","pages":"105-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.V12.N3.25293","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEl efecto de redundancia es el hallazgo de un mayor aprendizaje a un estimulo X entrenado en un procedimiento de bloqueo A+ AX+, que a un estimulo Y entrenado en un procedimiento de discriminacion BY+ CY-. Estos hallazgos son nuevos y teoricamente desafiantes para todas las teorias del condicionamiento que calculan el aprendizaje en base a un error comun. Es por ello que examinamos alternativamente la posibilidad que el fenomeno sea el resultado de un razonamiento proposicional. En un experimento, replicamos el efecto basico y encontramos que la adicion de instrucciones sobre la ocurrencia de las consecuencias a un nivel sub-maximo no tiene un efecto significativo sobre el efecto de redundancia. Estos hallazgos son discutidos en relacion con una aproximacion proposicional y asociativa basada en el supuesto que los estimulos experimentales comparten un elemento comun. EnglishThe redundancy effect is the finding of greater learning when an X stimulus is trained in an A+ AX+ blocking procedure, than when a Y stimulus is trained in a BY+ CY- discrimination procedure. These findings are new and theoretically challenging for all conditioning theories that calculate learning based on a common error. For this reason, we alternatively examined the possibility that the phenomenon is the result of a propositional reasoning. In an experiment, we replicated the basic effect and we found out that the addition of instructions on the occurrence of the consequences at a submaximal level does not have a significant impact on the redundancy effect. These findings are discussed with regard to a propositional and associative approach based on the assumption that the experimental stimuli share a common feature.