The Pearce-Hall model
A) makes the same predictions as the Rescorla-Wagner model, except where latent inhibition is concerned.
B) emphasizes that attention is less likely to occur as the US becomes more surprising.
C) emphasizes that attention is less likely to occur as the CS predictiveness increases.
D) emphasizes that CS and US effectiveness are equally important in determining whether conditioning will occur.

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The Pearce-Hall model suggests that attention to a conditioned stimulus (CS) decreases as the predictiveness of the CS increases, meaning that once a CS is well understood, less attention is paid to it.

The Pearce-Hall Model