The Rescorla-Wagner Model Provides a Mathematical Framework for Explaining Pavlovian

question 52

Multiple Choice

The Rescorla-Wagner model provides a mathematical framework for explaining Pavlovian conditioning and demonstrates how a negatively accelerated learning curve is generated. A similar curve is illustrated within connectionist networks as a result of:

• A) back propagation
• B) hidden units
• C) the delta rule
• D) simultaneous unit activation

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