According to the Rescorla-Wagner theory, if a bell and a light are simultaneously associated with a shock, then the amount of fear elicited by the bell will be
A) the same as that elicited by the light.
B) different from that elicited by the light.
C) unaffected by the amount of conditioning that occurs to the light.
D) affected by the amount of conditioning that occurs to the light.

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The Rescorla-Wagner theory suggests that the associative strength is distributed among all cues present during conditioning, so the conditioning to the bell is affected by the conditioning to the light.

According to the Rescorla-Wagner Theory, If a Bell and a Light