Lecture 3 - Introduction to theories of learning

Question 1

Thus far we have concerned ourselves with learning that enables the memory of one stimulus to excite that of another through an associative link that has been formed between them (i.e., with excitatory associations).
There is other evidence suggesting that the memory of one stimulus can come to inhibit that of another through a process of learning. Following a reprise of last week’s lecture, we will explore the nature of inhibitory learning and how the Rescorla-Wagner model explains it.
We will also explore the successes and the shortcomings of the Rescorla-Wagner model as an account of associative learning in animals

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