Classical/Pavlovian Conditioning Foundations
I. Introduction
-review of basic procedure and terminology
II. Common Experimental Preparations
-salivary conditioning
-eyelid conditioning
-fear
-autoshaping
-taste aversion
III. Temporal Arrangement of CS/US
-excitatory versus inhibitory
-simultaneous, delayed, trace, backwards
IV. Necessary and sufficient conditions for learning
-control procedures
-contiguity versus contingency
-Rescorla settles things
V. Inhibition
-procedures, measures

Stimulus Generalization, stimulus discrimination, extinction

Extinction: how we know it isn’t forgetting
1) Spontaneous Recovery
2) Rapid Reaquisition
3) Disinhibition

II. Common experimental preparations: a. Salivary conditioning b. Eyelid conditioning c. Fear conditioning
-measures: HR, GSR, CER
“conditioned suppression”
“suppression ratio”
CSresponses
= -----------------------------
CSresponses+ Pre-CSresponses
So, low numbers means more learning has taken place.
If SR = 0, good learning. If SR = .5, no fear is learned

II. Common experimental preparations: a. Salivary conditioning b. Eyelid conditioning c. Fear conditioning d. Sign-tracking, or autoshaping
How do we know it isn’t operant conditioning?
Long-box experiment:

II. Common experimental preparations: a. Salivary conditioning b. Eyelid conditioning c. Fear conditioning d. Sign-tracking, or autoshaping e. Taste-aversion learning

III. CS-US arrangement a. simultaneous b. delayed c. trace d. backward

IV. Necessary and sufficient conditions for learning a. Control procedures b. Contiguity versus contingency
Rescorla’s work:
Two factors are in play:
P(US/CS) (likelihood that when CS appears, US does as well)
P(US/no CS) (likelihood that the US can appear alone)
If first probability is greater than the second, then excitatory conditioning takes place
If second probability is greater than the first, then inhibitory conditioning takes place
If both probabilities are equal, then NO LEARNING takes place
(exception: sauce béarnaise effect)

V. Inhibition a. procedures b. couldn’t this just be a form of extinction?