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Contemporary Study of Pavlovian Conditioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Robert A. Rescorla
Robert A. Rescorla*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Robert A. Rescorla, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104.
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Abstract

Pavlov's first report on conditioning emphasized its role in allowing the animal to adjust to its environment. Contemporary theories have seen this adjustment in terms of developing accurate knowledge of the environment. Three aspects of that thinking are explored: how the animal acquires initial knowledge, how it changes its knowledge when conditions of the world change, and how it makes use of multiple knowledge representations.

El primer informe de Pavlov sobre el condicionamiento subrayaba su función para la adaptación al ambiente. Las teorías contemporáneas han contemplado esta adaptación en términos del desarrollo de un conocimiento adecuado del medio ambiente. Se exploran tres aspectos de esa línea de pensamiento: cómo el animal adquiere el conocimiento inicial, cómo modifica su conocimiento cuando cambian las condiciones del medio y cómo hace uso de representaciones múltiples del conocimiento.

Keywords

error correctionoverexpectationsuperconditioningextinctionmodulationRescorla-Wagner modelcorrección de erroressobreespectativasupercondicionamientoextinciónmodulaciónmodelo de Rescorla-Wagner
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 2: Special Issue: A Century of Pavlovian Theory: The Madrid Lecture (Pavlov, 1903) , November 2003 , pp. 185 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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