How conditioned responses spread, narrow and fade

What this note covers

1. Stimulus generalisation spreads responding to similar cues
2. Stimulus discrimination narrows responding
3. Extinction reduces the conditioned response
4. Spontaneous recovery shows extinction is not erasure
5. Trace the three processes through one learning history
6. Design and interpret a stimulus-control investigation
7. Reading a generalisation gradient
8. Tracing extinction and return across contexts

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