Chapter 6 Outline

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Special Characteristics of Flavor Aversion Learning

  • One-trial learning
  • Long-delay learning
  • Learned safety
  • Hedonic shift
  • Compound potentiation
  • Conclusion

Some Reasons Learning Laws May Be General

  • Evolution produces both generality and specificity
  • The generality of relative validity

Associative Learning in Honeybees and Humans

  • Conditioning in bees
  • Category and causal learning in humans
  • Some disconnections between conditioning and human category and causal learning
  • Causes, effects, and causal power
  • Conclusion
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