A Researcher Creates a Compound of Two Fully and Separately

question 50

Multiple Choice

A researcher creates a compound of two fully and separately conditioned stimuli. She then presents the compound along with a neutral stimulus and continues to present the same outcome for the three stimuli that she had presented with the compound alone. According to the Rescorla-Wagner model,

• A) the two fully conditioned stimuli will lose excitation, while the neutral stimulus will gain excitation.
• B) the two fully conditioned stimuli will lose excitation, while the neutral stimulus will gain inhibition.
• C) all three stimuli will become more excitatory than they would be if conditioned separately.
• D) all three stimuli will become inhibitory, but less so than if they were conditioned separately.

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