PSY312H1 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.doc
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Organisms actually use this gap adaptively (as long as it"s not too long) If no predictive relationship, e. g. presentation of us is random if an animal is shocked in unpredictable contexts, it will quickly fall into experimental neurosis. Self-destructive, aggressive, etc: if we just have a tabula rasa association machine, this doesn"t make any sense the organism experiences distress to the point of being self- destructive. If we categorize just by generalization, categories are not bounded will keep expanding; need an opposing process of discrimination : tendency for response to be elicited by one stimulus and not another. Will argue that contiguity is neither necessary or sufficient; precluding contiguity does not prevent conditioning and providing it need not produce conditioning. Won"t produce conditioning if the ns (as a candidate for the cs) doesn"t provide any non-redundant information about us, no matter how contiguous it is.
