Identify and Give the Historical Significance of Each of the Following

question 129

Essay

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-slave resistance

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that was once neutral but, upon being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, begins to elicit a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior learning or conditioning.

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A mathematical model describing how the strength of a stimulus-reinforcement association is learned and how it changes during the conditioning process.

Blocking

In learning theory, the inhibition or prevention of the association of a new stimulus with a response due to the presence of a previously conditioned stimulus.