By showing correspondence between the procedures, the current study attempted to strengthen the converging lines of evidence that truth value is a conditionable property of a class of stimuli.
curriculum and methodology matter nothing if not put into play by a competent, caring teacher." First, educators need to realize that the behavioral model--which fails to even consider the possibility that organisms can think--while apparently satisfactory for dogs, pigeons, rats, and other more conditionable life forms, is probably of limited use with human beings.
Standard accounts of associative learning (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) assert that the added stimulus competes with the target CS for a limited amount of associative strength conditionable by a given reinforcer.