Boddez Yannick, Bennett Marc Patrick, van Esch Silke, Beckers Tom
a Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences , KU Leuven , Leuven , Belgium.
c Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , Ireland.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Nov;31(7):1444-1452. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1230541. Epub 2016 Sep 28.
Generalising what is learned about one stimulus to other but perceptually related stimuli is a basic behavioural phenomenon. We evaluated whether a rule learning mechanism may serve to explain such generalisation. To this end, we assessed whether inference rules communicated through verbal instructions affect generalisation. Expectancy ratings, but not valence ratings, proved sensitive to this manipulation. In addition to revealing a role for inference rules in generalisation, our study has clinical implications as well. More specifically, we argue that targeting inference rules might prove to be an effective strategy to affect the excessive generalisation that is often observed in psychopathology.
将从一种刺激中学到的内容推广到其他但在感知上相关的刺激上，是一种基本的行为现象。我们评估了一种规则学习机制是否可以用来解释这种推广。为此，我们评估了通过言语指令传达的推理规则是否会影响推广。结果表明，预期评分而非效价评分对这种操作敏感。除了揭示推理规则在推广中的作用外，我们的研究还具有临床意义。更具体地说，我们认为针对推理规则可能是一种有效的策略，可以影响在精神病理学中经常观察到的过度推广。
