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Latent inhibition (LI) is a behavioral phenomenon that refers to the decreased ability to acquire or express a new association due to nonreinforced stimulus pre-exposure, resulting in a slower conditioning rate of the pre-exposed stimulus (Lubow & Moore, 1959; Lubow, 1965; Lubow & Weiner, 2010). LI should not be confused with conditioned inhibition (CI) or extinction (Ex), since they are procedures that have different procedures and results. However, it can be categorized as one of the effects by simple exposure, such as perceptual learning (PL) or habituation (H) (Angulo & Arévalo-Romero, 2021).
It is important to clarify that LI is not a process; it is an effect of the procedure of passive pre-exposure of the conditioned stimulus (CS) without reinforcement, which is later associated with an unconditioned stimulus (US) to achieve classical conditioning. The standard procedure is given in three phases: In Phase 1, an associatively neutral stimulus is...
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Esteban, K., McConnell, B., Quezada-Scholz, V.E., Angulo, R., Laborda, M.A., Miguez, G. (2024). Latent Inhibition. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1320-1
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