How Would You Explain the Typical Finding That for a Conjunction

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Essay

How would you explain the typical finding that for a conjunction search, the target-absent response times are approximately twice as slow as the target-present response times (i.e., for any given number of display items)?

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Little Albert

An early 20th-century experiment in classical conditioning where a young child was conditioned to fear a white rat, showcasing how emotional responses could be conditioned.

White Rat

Traditionally used as a subject in psychological and medical research because of its genetic uniformity and ease of observation.

Classical Conditioning

A training method in which pairing two stimuli repeatedly leads to a response originally produced by the second stimulus now being produced by only the first stimulus.