Inhibitory learning after feature negative training (A+/AB-) is typically measured by combining the Feature B with a separately trained excitor (e.g., C) in a summation test. Reduced responding to C is taken as evidence that B has properties directly opposite to those of C. However, in human causal learning, transfer of B's inhibitory properties to another excitor is modest and depends on individual differences in inferred causal structure. Here we ask whether instead of opposing processes, a summation test might instead be thought of in terms of generalization. Using an allergist task, we tested whether inhibitory transfer would be influenced by similarity. We found that transfer was greater when the test stimuli were from the same semantic category as the training stimuli (Experiments 1 and 2) and when the test excitor had previously been associated with the same outcome (Experiment 3). We also found that the similarity effect applied across all self-reported causal structures. We conclude it may be more helpful to consider transfer of inhibition as a form of conceptual generalization rather than the arithmetic summation of opposing processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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抑制求和作为泛化的一种形式。

特征否定训练 (A+/AB-) 之后的抑制性学习通常通过在求和测试中将特征 B 与单独训练的激励器 (例如 C) 相结合来测量。对 C 的反应减少被视为 B 具有与 C 直接相反的特性的证据。然而，在人类因果学习中，将 B 的抑制特性转移到另一个兴奋剂是适度的，并且取决于推断的因果结构中的个体差异。在这里，我们询问是否可以从概括的角度考虑求和检验，而不是相反的过程。使用过敏症任务，我们测试了抑制性转移是否会受到相似性的影响。我们发现，当测试刺激来自与训练刺激相同的语义类别（实验 1 和 2）以及当测试刺激之前与相同的结果相关联（实验 3）时，转移更大。我们还发现，相似性效应适用于所有自我报告的因果结构。我们得出结论，将抑制转移视为概念概括的一种形式，而不是相反过程的算术总和可能更有帮助。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。我们得出结论，将抑制转移视为概念概括的一种形式，而不是相反过程的算术总和可能更有帮助。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。我们得出结论，将抑制转移视为概念概括的一种形式，而不是相反过程的算术总和可能更有帮助。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。