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In this video I explain the basic idea behind the Rescorla-Wagner model or contingency model of classical conditioning proposed by Robert Rescorla and Allan Wagner. This model suggests that the reason Pavlov's dogs associated the bell (rather than some other stimulus) with food was that it was salient and served as a reliable predictor of food.
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