Chapter 4 Outline

The Rescorla-Wagner Model

  • Blocking and unblocking
  • Extinction and inhibition
  • Other new predictions
  • CS-US contingencies
  • What does it all mean?

Some Problems with the Rescorla-Wagner Model

  • The extinction of inhibition
  • Latent inhibition
  • Another look at blocking

The Role of Attention in Conditioning

  • The Mackintosh model
  • The Pearce-Hall model
  • A combined approach
  • What does it all mean?

Short-Term Memory and Learning

  • Priming of the US
  • Priming of the CS
  • Habituation
  • What does it all mean?

Nodes, Connections, and Conditioning

  • Wagner’s “SOP” model
  • Sensory versus emotional US nodes
  • Elemental versus configural CS nodes
  • What does it all mean?
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