Long-term Contingency Learning Depends on Contingency Awareness

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114499403
ORCID
0000-0002-9350-5272
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of Psychology, General Psychology II, Jena
Rothermund, Klaus;
GND
1363983598
Zugehörigkeit
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena
Kapinos, Lennart;
ORCID
0000-0003-0488-5224
Zugehörigkeit
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
De Houwer, Jan;
ORCID
0000-0002-0412-396X
Zugehörigkeit
LEAD-CNRS UMR5022, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Schmidt, James R

We examined long-term contingency learning (CL) in a color classification task with two separate sets of non-overlapping color-word contingencies that were employed in alternating blocks of the task ("alternating blocks paradigm"). Analyzing only the first occurrences of the word distractors in each block provides a pure indicator of long-term CL that is free from recency-based episodic retrieval processes. A high-powered (n = 110), pre-registered study revealed evidence for reliable long-term color-word CL. This long-term CL effect depended on contingency awareness, indicating that genuine long-term CL is influenced by propositional knowledge.

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