PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING

STUDY GUIDE 3
Prof. Bandrs

Identification of potential CSs and USs

CS pre-exposure effect
US pre-exposure effect
Stimulus intensity and Stimulus salience
Garcia and Koellig (1966)
CS-US relevance
Weiss et al. 2003
Relevance of visual and auditory cues
Higher order conditioning: procedure
Higher order conditioning and Human behavior
Sensory preconditioning: procedure
The conditioning model of drug tolerance (p.117)
S-R versus S-S learning
Devaluation experiments (Holland and Rescorla, 1975)
The Blocking effect: procedure
Contiguity is not enough for learning
The US has to be surprising
Rescorla-Wagner model
The Rescorla-Wagner equation
Applications: Conditioned excitation, Blocking, Overexpectation, Extinction
of Conditioned excitation