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Many communities have civil-defense tornado sirens that are sounded to warn people that a tornado has been spotted nearby and that they need to seek shelter immediately. In order to ensure that the sirens are functioning correctly, they need to be tested occasionally-but without generating a false alarm. A number of communities have announced that 9:00 a. m. on the first Tuesday of each month is their test time and that a siren sounded at this time can safely be ignored.
-According to the Rescorla-Wagner model, 9:00 a.m. on the first Tuesday of the month would be characterized as
A) an excitatory CS.
B) an inhibitory CS.
C) facilitating retrieval of the meaning of siren = tornado.
D) facilitating retrieval of the meaning of the siren = test.

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The Rescorla-Wagner model predicts that a stimulus will become an inhibitory CS when it signals the absence of an unconditioned stimulus. In this scenario, the siren at 9:00 a.m. on the first Tuesday signals the absence of a tornado, thus becoming an inhibitory conditioned stimulus (CS) because it indicates that there is no danger.

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