Psychology 2210A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Animal Cognition, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Contiguity
12 Sep 2014
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Temporal relationship between cs and us (time: simultaneous conditioning (temporal contiguity/coincidence) cs-us interval < 0, doesn"t yield strong evidence of learning, delayed conditioning (best!) Temporal encoding: organism learns when the us will occur after cs. The other cue will be ignored because you already predicted the us from first cs (ex. someone telling you need to change your oil when you have already seent he oil light is on) *good ex. pg. 71: cs/us contingency, contingency: extent to which the presence of one stimuli can serve as a basis for predicting the other (2 probabilities ) [p(us/cs] =probability us will occur given cs has been presented. [p(us/nocs)] =probability us will occur given cs has not happened: cs signals absence of us = negative contingency, cs signals presence of us = positive contingency, us occurs equally without cs = zero contingency.
