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If we present a dog with two unconditioned inputs at the same time, the dog will pay attention to the one that is more relevant to them and ignore the other one. For example, if a door slams at the same time a light goes on, the door will typically be the more salient stimuli and overshadow the light turning on. This is sometimes something we need to pay attention to in training, especially if the things we’re attempting to train (or the prompts we’re using) have not become conditioned stimuli yet. Other things in the environment, or accidental cues we broadcast, could overshadow the work we’re trying to do.
See also, Blocking.
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