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Learning: A Behavioral, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Synthesis provides an integrated account of the psychological processes involved in learning and conditioning and their influence on human behavior. With a skillful blend of behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary themes, the text explores various types of learning as adaptive specialization that evolved through natural selection. Robust pedagogy and relevant examples bring concepts to life in this unique and accessible approach to the field.
Identifying the Predictors of Significant Events
Identifying the Predictors of Significant Events
The problem confronting individuals in Pavlovian conditioning situations is to identify and learn what among the myriad other stimuli and events in the environment predicts the occurrence of the US. Although temporal precedence of the CS, temporal contiguity, and CS-US consistency aid in this search, they are not the only things that determine how quickly individuals learn. In this chapter we will look at other factors that influence the identification of the CS from among those events experienced when the US occurs. That identification is also influenced by what the individual brings to the conditioning situation—that is, its inherited knowledge about the importance of various stimulus events in relation to specific motivationally significant ...
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