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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 578-586Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0015007
Keywords
Bayes casual nets; response competition; Lloyd Morgan
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- BBSRC (United Kingdom)
- BBSRC [BB/F000553/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F000553/1, BB/C006380/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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It has recently been argued that rats engage in causal reasoning and they do so in a way that is consistent with Baves net theories (Blaisdell, Sawa, Leiong & Waldmann, 2006). This argument was based upon the finding that the tendency of cues to elicit approach to a food-well was reduced when their presentation was contingent on lever pressing There is, however, an alternative interpretation of the critical experimental findings that is based on the simple principle of response competition wherein]ever pressing interferes with the tendency to approach the food well Here the authors replicated Experiments 1 and 2a of Blaisdell et al. (2006) and found reciprocal patterns of lever pressing and food well approach during the critical cues. These results lend direct support for an interpretation in terms of response competition while providing evidence contrary to Bayes net theories, and are readily interpreted within the theoretical framework provided by traditional associative learning theory
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