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The issue of contingency vs. contiguity has been of major importance in conditioning and learning in recent years.

a) Describe the difference between contingency and contiguity.

b) Identify what Pavlov thought was necessary for learning to occur.

c) Describe, generally, what the Wagner-Rescorla model requires for learning to occur. various temporal relationships (i.e., simultaneous, standard, trace, etc.) support a contingency or contiguity interpretation.

d) Describe how Rescorla's research demonstrates the importance of contingent relationships.