Rescorla and Cunningham (1979) manipulated the location of two events (i.e., a green key and an X) in an experiment using second-order conditioning. Their results indicated that spatial contiguity was

a. necessary and sufficient for conditioning to occur.
b. not necessary but resulted in faster and stronger conditioning.
c. not necessary and even retards conditioning.
d. sufficient but not necessary for conditioning.


Ans: b

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