General Process Learning Theory: Challenges from Response and Stimulus Factors

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" General Process Learning Theory: Challenges from Response and Stimulus Factors "
Domjan, Michael

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	935942
Doc. No	:	LA0b69j9v1
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Domjan, Michael
Title & Author	:	General Process Learning Theory: Challenges from Response and Stimulus Factors [Article]\ Domjan, Michael
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Comparative Psychology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/3
Date	:	2000
Abstract	:	Traditionally, general theories of learning have focused on associative and other mechanisms that are responsible for conditioned behavior without seriously considering how those mechanisms might vary depending on the stimulus being learned about and the response that provides evidence of learning. Recent studies of sexual conditioning in male domesticated quail have revealed both quantitative and qualitative variations in the functional properties of conditioned behavior depending on the response that is measured and the events or objects that serve as conditioned stimuli. For example, sexually conditioned sign tracking behavior is directly related to the ratio between context exposure (C) and trial duration (T) in a conditioning procedure, but sexually conditioned goal tracking is inversely related to the C/T ratio. Other studies have shown that conditioned stimuli that include limited cues from a female quail support different forms of sexually conditioned behavior than conditioned stimuli that lack female features. Furthermore, these various conditioned responses are differentially sensitive to extinction and reinforcer devaluation. The implications of these findings for general process learning theory are discussed.