A Theory of Attention: Variations in the Associability of Stimuli with Reinforcement
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...The possibility of "configural" conditioning or "compounding" shows that this is not always true: With sufficient training, animals can learn to respond appropriately when AB is consistently reinforced but A and B separately are consistently not reinforced (e.g., Rescorla, 1972a; Woodbury, 1943)....
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...As training continues, however, the difference in validity outweighs the difference in salience, and B loses control while A gains control (e.g., Jenkins, 1973; Rescorla, 1972b)....
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...To this point, the elementary ideas being advanced do not represent any significant departure from the central assumptions of traditional theories of learning, at least of theories such as those advanced by Hull (1943), Spence (1936,1956), or Estes (1950, 1959)....
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