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Prediction Is What Is Learned

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What an organism learns in classical conditioning is the predictive relationship between two stimuli, not their co-occurrence.

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Two stimuli can appear together often and predict nothing, and little conditioning results.

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This finding reorganized conditioning theory. Frequency of pairing had been assumed to be the whole story.

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