A Review of the Empirical Laws of Basic Learning in Pavlovian Conditioning

摘要: Contemporary learning research has provided multiple paradigms that have benefited not only researchers in the field, but also applied theorists and practitioners. However, emphasis on theory development made literature almost impenetrable to nonexperts. In present paper, we attempt summarize different theoretical perspectives been proposed explain instances of learning, empirical relationships testing such theories uncovered. Because here hold across preparations species, suggest should be understood as laws basic learning. The focus our review is Pavlovian conditioning tradition, most these apply instrumental causality We hope relatively novel organization helps practitioners directly incorporate principles into their current framework, whatever it may be.