Associations Are Negligible or Absent When a Long Delay Between

question 20

Multiple Choice

Associations are negligible or absent when a long delay between CS-US pairings is used in most classical conditioning preparations. This finding has been attributed to

• A) the use of only a few CS-US pairings.
• B) the failure to use highly relevant CSs and USs.
• C) latent inhibition effects that occur because of the CSs typically used by researchers.
• D) strong interference effects from other stimuli that occur between the CS and US.

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