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1. The name of the phenomenon whereby there is failure to learn during the presentation of a compound CS due to a prior learning phase (in spite of contiguous presentations of CS and US), is known as .



2. ‘If responses made to a given situation are accompanied by an increased state of satisfaction to the animal (i.e. they are reinforced), these same responses will be more likely to recur given the recurrence of that same situation.’ This is a restatement of the .



3. The phenomenon of preparedness may illustrate the principle of .



4. In spatial learning, it seems to be likely that rats create a of their environment.



5. is a learning procedure in which two stimuli are paired – one usually presented shortly before the other to produce a conditioned response to the first stimulus.



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