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Short-Term Memory for "Surprising" versus "Expected" Unconditioned Stimuli in Pavlovian Conditioning

Terry, 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