Question

A click and a scent are separately paired with a shock, and each conditioned to the maximum associative value. The click and scent are then combined into a compound stimulus and subjected to further pairings with the shock. This is obviously an experiment on the ____ effect.

Answer 1

Answer:

overexpectation

Explanation:

Overexpectation effect: In psychology, the term "overexpectation effect" is defined as the phenomenon that tends to occur when a researcher finds the declination of response to a very well established CS or conditioned stimulus that have been encountered with further reinforcement training with respect to each other. The overexpectation effect has been widely studied by a psychologist named Ivan Pavlov who is responsible for setting up the pattern for studying and then explaining the response loss.

In reference to the question, the given statement represents the overexpectation effect.