Sometimes-Competing Retrieval (SOCR): A Formalization of the Comparator Hypothesis

• Published in: Psychological review Vol. 114; no. 3; pp. 759 - 783
• Main Authors: Stout, Steven C, Miller, Ralph R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.07.2007
• Subjects: Animals; Association Learning; Associative Learning; Attention; Classical Conditioning; Competition; Conditioning, Classical; Cues; Extinction, Psychological; Humans; Inhibition, Psychological; Learning Processes; Mental Recall; Models, Psychological; Probability Learning; Reinforcement, Psychology; Stimuli

Cue competition is one of the most studied phenomena in associative learning. However, a theoretical disagreement has long stood over whether it reflects a learning or performance deficit. The comparator hypothesis, a model of expression of Pavlovian associations, posits that learning is not subject...