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stimuli paired with US frequently and contiguous will result in conditioning
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| Temporal arragements of NS and US that result in conditioning |
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| Delayed and trace arrangements |
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| In overshadowing and blocking, compound stimulus fails to become CS |
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| Latent inhibition it is difficult to obtain conditioning |
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| Rescorla setting two probabilities to any values |
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different groups of rats experienced different probabilities of getting shocked on no-tone trials
Messed with tone and contingency with rats and shock |
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| Rescorla: when CS predicts increase in likelihood of US there is... |
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| a positive contingecy and excitatory conditioning is obtained |
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| Rescorla: when CS predicts nothing (when probabilities are equal) there is |
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| no contingency and no conditioning |
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| Rescorla: when CS predicts decrease in likelihood of US there is |
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| negtive contingency and inhibitory conditioning |
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| Classical conditioning is a learning mechanism that has evolved to help animals predict the occurrence of events |
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| S-R theory claims that learned connection is between CS and the response |
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| S-S theory claims learned connection is between CS(bell) and US(food) |
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| bell elicits salivation indirectly by activating food center, which elicits salivation |
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| Theory supports S-S instead of S-R |
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| Stimulus substitution theory is a version of |
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| Stimulus substitution theory claims that the CS(bell) becomes a surrogate/substitute for the US |
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| CS is functionally the same as US |
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| Brown and Jenkins (1968) (Substitution theory) |
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| paired keylight with food and found pigeons pecked the key |
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| Jenkins and Moor (1973) substitution theory |
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| keylight with food for pigeons and water for other. food make eating movements, water made drinking |
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| changing a response across trials towards a desired behavior |
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| Problem for stimulus-substitution theory |
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| when CR and UR are markedly different |
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| What kind of theory is prepatory-response theory |
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| The Rescorla-Wagner formula: ΔVn = c(Vmax – Vn) |
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