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Short-Term Memory for "Surprising" versus "Expected" Unconditioned Stimuli in Pavlovian Conditioning
Peer reviewedTerry, William S.; Wagner, Allan R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1975
The major question of interest in the present investigation was whether or not a UCS is more effectively represented in STM when its occurrence is relatively surprising as opposed to expected. (Author)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Classical Conditioning, Diagrams, Experimental Psychology
Peer reviewedCoulter, Xenia; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1976
The results of this study suggested that size change may contribute to the forgetting of events occurring late in development, but that neurological immaturity may underly the forgetting of earlier events. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Charts, Classical Conditioning, Experimental Psychology
