Learned Irrelevance Is a

question 87

Multiple Choice

Learned irrelevance is a

• A) combination of Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning that results in an extremely inhibitory CS that blocks instrumental learning.
• B) situation in which exposure to a zero contingency between a CS and US interferes with future learning.
• C) type of blocking effect that occurs in multistage instrumental conditioning procedures in which learning one response reduces the ability to learn a second response.
• D) type of discrimination procedure in which the two stimuli that serve as the S^D and S^Δ are reversed across training phases so frequently that the subject comes to ignore both stimuli.

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Definitions:

Marginal Benefit (MB) Curves

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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

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Slope Downward

A graphical representation indicating a decrease or decline in a variable as another variable increases, common in supply and demand curves.

Coase Theorem

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