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Contiguity
1) In respondent conditioning, contiguity refers to the temporal pairing of CS and US.
2) The juxtaposition of two or more events, especially in the case of their occurrence simultaneously or very closely together in time (e.g., the succession of a response and a reinforcer in a superstition procedure or the pairing of CS and US in a respondent procedure).
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