1. Understand Pavlov's analysis of the nature of the conditioning process and the 3 conclusions that followed from this analysis.

2. Understand Rescorla's experiments and be able to differentiate between contiguity and contingency descriptions of a situation, using both event diagrams and verbal descriptions.

3. How does Pavlov decide whether you should assign a stimulus to be either a CS or UCS?

4. Understand Kamin's blocking experiment, and how this effect was interpreted to produce a new description of the nature of the conditioning process.

5. Be able to define the terms in the Rescorla-Wagner model, and the relation of those terms to traditional conditioning terminology.

6. Be able to compute the results for a short series of trials according to the Rescorla-Wagner model. (Yes. You can bring and use a calculator during the test.)

7. Review the Rescorla-Wagner simulations we did in class, and be able to connect simulation results with general predictions of conditioning effects.

8.  What is Cannon's concept of homeostasis, and how does that apply to how we should think about how stimuli affect us?

9.  Understand Solomon's shock experiments.  What did he do and what did he discover? 

10. Understand Solomon's "opponent process" model. What is "affective contrast" and "affective dynamics"? What controls the "a-process" and the "b-process" and why do they change differently over time?

11. Understand Siegel's analysis of the classical conditioning effects in short and long-term heroin use.

12. How does Siegel explain tolerance, craving, and withdrawal effects?

13. Be able to contrast Pavlov's and Rescorla's analysis of classical conditioning to concrete situations.

14. Be able to apply Pavlov's, Siegel's, and Kamin's analysis of classical conditioning to concrete situations.

15. Be able to apply the Rescorla-Wagner model to concrete situations.