The eye blink as a time-locked response: implications for serial and second-order conditioning.

Autor: Sears RJ, Baker JS, Frey PW
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes [J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process] 1979 Jan; Vol. 5 (1), pp. 43-64.
DOI: 10.1037//0097-7403.5.1.43
Abstrakt: A series of experiments were conducted to determine what factors control responding to the first element of a two-element serial compound in rabbit eyelid conditioning. An examination of response topography indicated that the eye-blink CR is rigidly timed to occur when the US is expected. This response-system characteristic prevents the occurrence of a CR during the first element of a serial compound or during the second-order CS in second-order conditioning. The comparison of a serial gap procedure with conventional serial and trace conditioning procedures suggested that the associative strength of the first element of a serial CS is not strongly influenced by either a second-order conditioning process or by the variable-reinforcement principle.
Databáze: MEDLINE