Chapter 6: Are the Laws of Conditioning General?
Chapter Outline
Everything You Know Is Wrong
Special Characteristics of Flavor Aversion Learning
- One-trial learning
- Long-delay learning
- Learned safety
- Hedonic shift
- Compound potentiation
- Summary
Some Reasons Why Learning Laws May Be General
- Evolution produces both generality and specificity
- The generality of relative validity
Associative Learning in Honeybees and Humans
- Conditioning in bees
- Category and causal learning in humans
- Some disconnections between conditioning and human category and causal learning
- Causes, effects, and causal power
Conclusion
Summary
