Counterconditioning as a crucible for studying associative interference
Résumé
Counterconditioning (i.e., cue-outcome1 followed by cue-outcome2) is the most traditional instance of associative interference and hence a good preparation to seek general rules of interference. Extinction is rather similar, although it replaces outcome2 with the absense of any explicit event. Counterconditioning is typically more effective than extinction. However, we failed to find this relationship either with neutraloutcomes or outcomes of opposing valence. Our experiments speak to the role of outcome.