Psychology / Unit 5 Psych 0533 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The "Pairing Is Enough" Error
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The idea
It is an error to think that repeated pairing alone produces conditioning regardless of how predictive the pairing is.
In practice
A cue that precedes food half the time and occurs without it just as often produces little learning.
Where people slip
This was the field's own position before the contingency findings. Corrections of this size are normal science.
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