Latent Inhibition

2022-01-11 links: reference: https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Latent_inhibition

Latent Inhibition #

• Exposure to a stimulus of little or no consequence prevents conditioned associations with the stimulus being formed. Without regulating this, we’d have information overload, psychosis, or perhaps creativity.
• Basically how organisms are less likely to associate familiar stimuli with an uconditioned sitmulus compared with novel stimuli.