On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:05:17 -0800, Jim Dougan wrote: >>[Earlier Mike Palij wrote: >>It turns out that this is the article I and perhaps others had read: >> >>Seligman, M. E. P., & Hager, J. L. (Aug, 1972). Biological boundaries >>of learning: The sauce-bernaise syndrome. Psychology Today, pp. 59-61, >>84-87. > >As I mentioned yesterday, Seligman and Hager also published >a book (an edited volume) entitled "Biological Boundaries of >Learning" in 1972. My memory is that the "sauce bernaise >syndrome" is mentioned in that book. I was never a reader of >Psych Today
I was young and foolish at the time. Reading "Psychology Today" was the least of my "sins" back then. ;-) >but I did read the book. It is possible, of course, that >Seligman included his own Psych Today article in the book - >though I find that dolubtful... I don't have a copy of the book available but looking at the reprint of the article in the reader "The Functional Mind", it looks like the article may have been an overview of the book and, perhaps, prepared separately from the book. Re-reading the article now I can see how it makes some clear and strong points about Seligman's theory of biological preparedness and the "sauce bearnaise syndrome" which would explain why it was included in the reader instead of one of Seligman's other papers on these points. >For clarification, remember that the "Sauce Bernaise Syndrome" is >not the same thing as the "Garcia Effect." > >The Garcia Effect is an apparent preparedness to make associations >between sickness and gustatory stimuli as compared to sickness and >audio/visual stimuli. > >The Sauce Bernaise Syndrome is the tendency to associate the most >novel gustatory stimulus (the sauce bernaise) with the sickness, >rather than with the actual cause of the sickness. Although I have heard this distinction made, Seligman doesn't make it in this article. He actually uses the Garcia effect as "the" explanation: ************************* The same week that Seligman was undergoing the agonies of the stomach flu, John Garcia...published the first of a series of articles...[that] are now recognized as perhaps the most important studies of animal learning of the decade. Among their consequences was that they explained the "sauce-Bearnaise" phenomenon. Garcia and Robert A. Koelling confronted their rats with a sweet-tasting liquid and a light-sound stimulus, both paired with radiation sickness -- a malaise characterized by stomach upset. But only taste, not the bright light or loud sound, became unpleasant to the rats. In the complementary experiment, they paired the sweet taste and the light-sound stimuli with electric shock. This time, the rats associated the light-sound combination, not the tast, with the shock. *************************** The "novel taste" definition of "sauce-bearnaise" syndrome, I assume, may have developed through subsequent studies on overshadowing and latent inhibition? Does anyone know when the "novel taste" definition was first used? -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Although both phenomena involve taste aversion learning, they should >both be considered "sub phenomena" within the taste aversion literature. > >-- Jim --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
