PS261 Lecture 9: PS 261 Chapter 9 Notes.docx
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With renewal, the recovery of a certain behavior occurs in the presence of contextual cues that are different from the ones that a present when extinction first occurred if extinction occurs in one context (ex. a blue room) and the animal is tested in another room (ex. a red room), the original response (before extinction) will occur in the new context (i. e. it is renewed) the learning of extinction is context specific. Another form of evidence is retention; which is test by devaluation how much of the original learning is retained even after extinction after a cs is paired with a us; the us is devalued by pairing it with sickness: the cs will elicit less response by devaluating the us after extinction, we can see if the cs us (i. e. r o (response outcome)) association is still evident after extinction.
