Question
The Rescorla–Wagner model predicts that learning occurs when surprise causes associations between two of these things, a position opposed by S–R theorists like Guthrie and Thorndike. For 10 points each:
[10e] What term refers to the “conditioned” and “unconditioned” variables presented to the subject in classical conditioning?
ANSWER: stimulus [or stimuli; accept conditioned stimulus or unconditioned stimulus; accept stimulus–stimulus theory; prompt on S, CS, US, UCS, or S–S theory]
[10h] The Rescorla–Wagner model’s emphasis on surprise explained this effect in which a stimulus fails to cause learning in the presence of an expected conditioned stimulus. It was proposed by Leon Kamin.
ANSWER: blocking effect [or Kamin blocking]
[10m] A surprising prediction of the Rescorla–Wagner model is that conditioned inhibitors can protect from this phenomenon. The model fails to explain spontaneous recovery from this eventual decrease in an unreinforced conditioned response.
ANSWER: extinction
<Social Science>
Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 11 | 10.91 | 73% | 36% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |