Probability of shock in the presence and absence of CS in fear conditioning.
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...Conditioning is sensitive to the statistical dependency between events (Rescorla, 1968; Gallistel, 1990)....
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...Modern interest in the role of contingency in learning was rekindled by observations that presenting the US without the CS during training decreased CRs to the CS (Rescorla 1968)....
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...A second technique (the method of negative contingency) for producing conditioned inhibition consists of presenting the target stimulus and the US in an explicitly unpaired fashion (Rescorla 1968)....
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...Thanks largely to the efforts of Rescorla (1968), we now know that animals learn about negative CS-US contingencies as well as about positive ones....
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...Although such an account is plausible for the present data, it fails to explain the active inhibition of fear found by Rescorla and LoLordo (1965), Rescorla (1966), and Hammond (1967)....
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