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Second-order conditioning, also known as higher-order conditioning, is a process in classical conditioning where a previously neutral stimulus (NS) becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) after…
Sensory preconditioning is a phenomenon where two neutral stimuli (NS1 and NS2) are presented together before either one is associated with an unconditioned stimulus (US).…
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