When1: 1969
When2: 1984
Who: Leon J. Kamin [Kamin, Leon J.]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Predictability, surprise, attention, and conditioning [1969]; Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature [1984: with Steven Rose and R. C. Lewontin]
Detail: He lived 1927 to ?. If conditional stimulus pairs with reinforcer and then second stimulus pairs with first stimulus and reinforcer, animals do not respond to only second stimulus {blocking effect, Kamin} [1969]. Animals seem to assume minimum sufficient causation.
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