PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Classical Conditioning, Comparator
27 Mar 2020
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If a cs has acquired excitatory properties, there will be an overexpectation of the us the first time the. Looking for action: the attention a stimulus commands after it has become a good predictor of the. Us and can generate a cr with minimal cognitive effort: 2. Looking for learning: the type of attention involved in processing cues that are not yet good predictors of the: us and therefore have much to be learned about, 3. Looking for liking: refers to the attention that stimuli command because of their emotional value (liked or: disliked). Important feature of attention theories is that they assume that the outcome of a given trial alters the degree of: attention commanded by the cs on future trials. Contrary to r-w model in which the surprisingness of the us on: a given trial determines what is learned on that same trial.
