Second-order conditioning

[2] Theoretical models for how second-order conditioning (SOC) works have a basis in associative learning theories.

The second model suggests that in successful SOC an associative representation of each stimulus is created.

[3] Second- Order conditioning helps explain why some people desire money to the point that they hoard it and value it even more than the objects it purchases.

Money is initially used to purchase objects that produce gratifying outcomes, such as an expensive car.

Results demonstrated that protein synthesis inhibition after exposure to a single CS1 impairs responses to both CS1 and CS2, but protein synthesis inhibition after exposure to a single CS2, only disrupts CS2 and leaves CS1 freezing intact.