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Display Terminals (VDT) presentation mode, the field-independent readers are much better than
field-dependent readers in the amount of information-keeping.
1063.71 The effect of cognitive styles on context effects in recognition memory, Maolin Zhang,
Peng Yi, College of Shandong Nurmal University, China
Context effects in recognition memory refer to such a phenomenon that a cue-to-memory match in
the context information facilitates recognition judgment. The present study investigated the effects
of cognitive styles on the context effects in recognition from a dual-processing approach. The
main objective of us was to examine whether the performance of learners recognition is affected
by the cognitive styles. The results indicate the change of context between learning and test affects
recognitions accompanied by conscious recollection but not those purely based on familiarity, at
the same time, field-dependent learners performed significantly better than field-independent
learners in the former level.
1063.72 Assimilation and contrast in evaluative conditioning, Marianne Hammerl 1 , Claudia
Schlicht 1 , Eamon P. Fulcher 2 , 1 University of Regensburg, Germany; 2 University College
Worcester, UK
In the standard evaluative conditioning procedure, the evaluation of a stimulus in terms of whether
it is liked or disliked can be altered by presenting it in close temporal proximity with an affective
stimulus. In two experiments (laboratory and field experiments), evaluative conditioning was
demonstrated in the context of advertising. Participants showed assimilation effects (i.e.,
evaluative changes in the direction of the affective stimulus) when unaware of the experimental
procedure and contrast effects (i.e., evaluative changes in the opposite direction) when aware of
the manipulation. The effects are in line with recent studies that used other stimulus sets and
procedures.
1063.73 The effect of the cues that are not present: A reevaluation of the Rescorla-Wagner model,
Izumi Hiramatsu, Rachel Dryer, Michael Kiernan, Charles Sturt University Australia
The Rescorla-Wagner model of associative learning is applied to understanding human causality
judgments. The model does not account for how humans change causal judgments about events
retrospectively (i.e., retrospective reevaluation). Tassoni (1995) developed an Information Coding
system within a neural network with an identical learning rule to the Rescorla-Wagner model.
While his model allowed him to simulate the associative change between the absent but expected
cue and the outcome, it does not account for one type of retrospective reevaluation. The current
study presents a modification of Tassoni’s system. This allows us to account for a larger array of
retrospective effects.
1063.74 Exercise-induced taste aversion learning in rats, Sadahiko Nakajima, Psychology
Section, Department of Integrated Psychological Science, Japan
One of the most intriguing findings in recent experimental research on conditioned taste aversion
in rats is that physical exercise works as an effective agent to establish aversion to, or avoidance
from, the taste substance consumed before the exercise. Voluntary running in a free wheel or
forced swimming in a water pool endows rats with conditioned taste aversion, despite that the rats
show no clear behavioral sign of nausea, malaise, or sickness after the exercise. This paper gives
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