Psychology / Unit 5 Psych 0535 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Prediction Is What Is Learned
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The idea
What an organism learns in classical conditioning is the predictive relationship between two stimuli, not their co-occurrence.
In practice
Two stimuli can appear together often and predict nothing, and little conditioning results.
Where people slip
This finding reorganized conditioning theory. Frequency of pairing had been assumed to be the whole story.
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