associative strength

as·so·ci·a·tive strength

in psychology, the strength of a stimulus response linkage as measured by the frequency with which a stimulus elicits a particular response. See: conditioning.
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Although the book mentions contrast effects, so important because of their implications for the determination of associative strength, it does not address behavioral contrast (the effect that a change in one component of a multiple schedule has on the unchanged component).
Learning and behavior: A contemporary synthesis
This decrease on attention does not imply a decrease on the associative strength (or, in more general terms, the predictive power of the context) that would be gained by the context at the beginning of training.
The effect of context change on simple acquisition disappears with increased training
where [E.sub.AB] is the associative strength of the configuration AB; [E.sub.i] is the associative strength of the i similar configurations that the individual has learned about in the environment; and [S.sub.AB,i] is the similarity, judged by the proportion of shared components, between the configuration AB and these i configurations.
The influence of knowledge about causal mechanisms on compound processing
From a psychological point of view, coefficient B3 represents pretrial associative strength, and coefficient B4--behavioral saturation level for associative strength.
A new mathematical model for assessment of memorization dynamics
Context B would acquire some inhibitory strength during extinction that would protect the CS from losing all of its excitatory associative strength (Thomas & Ayres, 2004; see also Rauhut, Thomas, & Ayres, 2001).
Renovacion AAB y ABA en funcion del numero de ensayos de extincion en aversion condicionada al sabor
In an overshadowing procedure cues are presented in compound and later tests of the associative strength of the individual cues may indicate that the learning of one element of the compound was moderated (overshadowed) by the other element of the compound.
An attempt at blocking of position learning by training with reward-memory associations
In Simpson and Burgess (1985), the associative strength between the prime (bank) and the target (money) was not controlled.
Lexical processing of ambiguous words: dominance or associative strength?
According to these models, presenting a conditioned inhibitor (A) during extinction treatment with the target CS (S) should decrease the expectation of the absent US (i.e., based on a low total associative strength of the AS compound), thereby reducing the loss of associative strength undergone by CS S on each extinction trial (i.e., protection from extinction).
Proteccion de la extincion por la presentacion concurrente de un excitador o un EC extensivamente extinguido
Both RFT and associative conditioning accounts predict, therefore, that trial types involving end terms will produce faster reaction times than those that do not because they possess either the strongest or weakest associative strengths (note that RFT would describe these effects in terms of the strongest directly trained reinforcing and punishing functions, rather than employing the concept of associative strength).
The effect of training structure on the latency of responses to a five-term linear chain
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.
Ensombrecimiento y potenciacion del condicionamiento de aversion al contexto
Because the temporal parameters used for each of these groups yield identical ratios of intertrial interval to trial duration and of interreinforcer interval (cycle) to trial duration for both the CS and cover stimuli, Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET) predicts comparable levels of acquired associative strength across these groups (Gibbon & Balsam, 1981).
The cover-stimulus effect: role of similarity in durations of the CS and cover cues
Of course, in the present conditions this should be dependent on the relative associative strength of positive and negative primes.
Affective priming with associatively acquired valence
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