This document discusses several mechanisms of respondent conditioning: 1) Contingency and contiguity play a role in conditioning - the likelihood of the unconditioned stimulus occurring with or without the conditioned stimulus affects conditioning. Shorter time intervals between stimuli also strengthen conditioning. 2) Compound stimuli, using two or more cues together and then pairing with the unconditioned stimulus, often conditions responses to both cues. 3) Blocking occurs when a stimulus is conditioned to one cue, preventing further conditioning to another cue presented with the first. 4) Overshadowing happens when a more salient cue reduces conditioning to a less intense cue. Prior experience without the unconditioned stimulus (latent inhibition) also weakens future