Effective functioning in a complex environment requires adjusting of behavior according to changing situational demands. To do so, organisms must learn new, more adaptive behaviors by extracting the necessary information from externally provided feedback. Not surprisingly, feedback-guided learning has been extensively studied using multiple research paradigms. The purpose of the present study was to test the newly designed Paired Associate Deterministic Learning task (PADL), in which participants were presented with either positive or negative deterministic feedback. Moreover, we manipulated the level of motivation in the learning process by comparing blocks with strictly cognitive, informative feedback to blocks where participants were additionally motivated by anticipated monetary reward or loss. Our results proved the PADL to be a useful tool not only for studying the learning process in a deterministic environment, but also, due to the varying task conditions, for assessing differences in learning patterns. Particularly, we show that the learning process itself is influenced by manipulating both the type of feedback information and the motivational significance associated with the expected monetary reward.
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decision-making
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motivation
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learning dynamics
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learning curve
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deterministic learning
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dc.description.volume
8
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dc.description.publication
1,4
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dc.identifier.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00935
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dc.identifier.eissn
1664-1078
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dc.title.journal
Frontiers in Psychology
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eng
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dc.date.accession
2018-03-07
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Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej : Instytut Psychologii Stosowanej
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Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Filozofii
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Pion Prorektora ds. badań naukowych i funduszy strukturalnych : Małopolskie Centrum Biotechnologii
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Article
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dc.identifier.articleid
935
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CC-BY; otwarte czasopismo; ostateczna wersja wydawcy; w momencie opublikowania; 0