LEARNING ABOUT S-S RELATIONS: Theories

WHEN DOES LEARNING OCCUR

Historical view

Contiguity is necessary and sufficient

Challenges to the notion that contiguity is necessary

Temporal contiguity and taste aversion learning

Challenges to the notion that contiguity is sufficient

Overshadowing

Blocking

The attentional account

Informational account

Random US experiment (Rescorla)

MODELS OF PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING

RESCORLA-WAGNER MODEL (1972)

The model

Application

Acquisition

Blocking

Overshadowing

Extinction

Conditioned inhibition

US pre-exposure effect

Novel predictions

Overexpectation

Contingency effects

 

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