What did Rick Rescorla do?

Cyril Richard Rescorla (May 27, 1939 – September 11, 2001) was a British American soldier, police officer, educator, and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

What did Rescorla and Wagner show about conditioning?

The Rescorla-Wagner model is a formal model of the circumstances under which Pavlovian conditioning occurs. It attempts to describe the changes in associative strength (V) between a signal (conditioned stimulus, CS) and the subsequent stimulus (unconditioned stimulus, US) as a result of a conditioning trial.

Who was head of security WTC?

John P. O’Neill
Died September 11, 2001 (aged 49) New York City, New York, U.S.
Cause of death Collapse of the World Trade Center
Education American University (BA) George Washington University (MS)
Occupation FBI special agent, World Trade Center security head

What was Rescorla’s experiment?

In 1968, Rescorla conducted one of his most famous studies – the ‘truly random control’ procedure1. This study underlined the importance of continuity between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US) in learning.

What was Rescorla’s contingency model?

Contingency theory is one approach to formalizing associative learning (Rescorla, 1967, 1968). According to Rescorla, the “American” view of Pavlovian conditioning focused upon the frequency of pairings between reinforcement (or more generally the unconditioned stimulus (US)) and the conditioned stimulus (CS).

Who is Martin Schmidt based on?

Michael Scheuer
Television adaptation The cast includes Alec Baldwin as CIA director George Tenet, Jeff Daniels as John O’Neill, Tahar Rahim as Ali Soufan, and Peter Sarsgaard as the fictional CIA analyst Martin Schmidt, based on Michael Scheuer.