III. Theoretical Accounts of Classical Conditioning
A. Contiguity Theory
1.
Pavlov's Model
2.
Hull's Model
3.
Problems
a. Response Similarity
b. Violations of Temporal Contiguity
c. Inhibitory Conditioning
d. Contingency Effects
e. Differential Learning with the Same
Contiguity
f. Associating Mental Representations
B.
The Rescorla-Wagner Theory
1.
Conditions
2.
The Delta Rule
3. Some Successful Predictions
a. Diminishing Returns Curve
b. Inhibitory Effects
c. Compound Conditioning Effects
i. Overshadowing
ii. Initial Blocking
iii. Compounding After Asymptotic
Learning
4. Some Left-Over Problems
a. Contiguity Effects
b. CS Salience Effects
i. Latent Inhibition
ii. Learned Irrelevance
iii. Excitatory CRs in Blocking
iv. Surprisingness
C.
The Wagner Memory Model
1.
Two Memory Stores: STM & LTM
2.
Attentional Processing versus Automatic Retrieval
3. Forming an Episode
4.
Some Predictions
D. A
Bit
About Comparator Models