The Replaced-Elements Assumption of the SOP Model

question 43

Multiple Choice

The replaced-elements assumption of the SOP model

• A) increases the predictive accuracy of the model over the Mackintosh model, but still fails to account for the configural effects explained by the Pearce model.
• B) predicts that adding new stimuli to an established CS and removing stimuli from a compound CS produces symmetrical effects.
• C) assumes that when stimuli are added to a simple stimulus to form a compound, all of the stimuli's elements are activated and processed together.
• D) predicts that removing stimuli will dramatically reduce associative strength, whereas adding new neutral stimuli will have less of an impact.

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Dendrites

Extensions of neurons that receive signals from other neurons and conduct them toward the cell body.

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Long, slender projections of nerve cells that transmit electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands.

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