순막조건반응에서 배경변화가 잠재적 억제에 미치는 효과 = The Effects of Context Change on Latent Inhibition in the Rabbit's Nictitating Membrane Response

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study investigated the characteristics and roles of contextual stimuli in latent inhibition with classically conditioned Rabbit's nictitating membrane response.
The Rescorla-Wagner model treats contextual stimulus as a nominal stimulus, thus emphasizing a salient contextual stimulus in all of background stimuli. But some investigators treat contextual stimuli as all of background stimuli.
The subjects were 24 male albino rabbits weighed about 2kg on arrival. In one group, conditioning stage differs from preexposure stage in all of the stimuli which can be in a salient stimulus. Namely, in this latter group, light stimulus (DC 12V, SW) was presented at the preexposure stage. But it was not presented at the conditioning stage.
Results show that there is context specificity in the former, but not in the latter. The results suggest that the context should be constructed by all of background stimuli and may be processed as if they were one stimulus, through intearation of all of them in learning.