Questions for Domjan Chapter 4

P93 How does the intensity of the CS affect conditioning?  How does the intensity of the US affect it?

P94-95 Explain CS-US relevance or belongingness.

P95 How does the work on taste aversion learning illustrate belongingness?

P96  Describe the procedure for higher-order conditioning.  Give a real life example of higher –order conditioning.

P100 Explain the stimulus substitution model of performance.
        What is the evidence that favors this explanation? Give a piece of evidence against stimulus substitution.

P101 What is homeostasis?

P102 Explain how a conditioned response can be homeostatic. Give some examples.

P103 Explain the conditioning model of drug tolerance. Be sure to label all the components (CS,US,CR,UR)

P105 Give an example of how the nature of the CS can determine the nature of the CR.

P106-107 Explain how changing the CS-US interval sometimes changes the CR.

P109 Explain the difference between S-S and S-R learning

P109 How does the US devaluation experiment distinguish between S-S and S-R learning?

P110 Explain blocking

P113 How does the Rescorla-Wagner model account for blocking?

P114 How does the model explain the “over expectation effect”?

P114 How does the model explain the development of inhibition?

P115 How does extinction take place in the model?

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General questions from lecture:

What are the necessary conditions for associative learning to occur?

What is the random control procedure?

What does the random control procedure suggest about the necessary conditions for learning?

Is contiguity sufficient for associative learning?

Explain blocking and overshadowing.

How does the Rescorla-Wagner model deal with blocking and overshadowing?

What does the behavior systems view have to say about the nature of the CR?