The current view of why classical conditioning works the way it does, advanced by Rescorla and others, adds the concept of __________ to conditioning theory.
A) generalization
B) habituation
C) memory loss
D) prediction

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The concept of prediction, also known as contingency, refers to the idea that classical conditioning occurs when the conditioned stimulus is a reliable predictor of the unconditioned stimulus. This idea was advanced by Rescorla and suggests that organisms learn to associate stimuli based on the degree of predictability of the outcome. Thus, the best choice is D. Generalization refers to the tendency to respond to similar stimuli, habituation refers to the decrease in response to a repeated stimulus, and memory loss is not a concept relevant to the explanation of classical conditioning.

The Current View of Why Classical Conditioning Works the Way