Alvarado-García A, Vila J, López-Romero L

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The aim of the present work was to demonstrate the effect of the post-training instructions in the trial by trial and global response modes, using an interference task in causal learning. In this situation, associative models predict a recency effect, in which response is according with the last trials of the training, whereas the statistical models predict an effect of phase integration, where response is according with all the trials presented during the task. Two experiments are presented where two response modes were manipulated, every 5-trials and global-response modes, as well as the post-training instructions for each response mode. The results showed that in the 5 trials response mode a recency effect was observed, meanwhile in the global response mode a phase integration effect was observed. Likewise the post-training instructions allow to modulate the effects obtained by the response mode, so that a phase integration can be observed in the 5 trials response mode and a recency effect can be observed in the global response mode. In this way, the post-training instructions and response mode can be considered as variables that can modulate the causal learning flexibility.