THE ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL DISCRIMINATION CONDITIONING EXPERIMENTS

A CR IN THE CLASSICAL DISCRIMINATION CONDITIONING SITUATION MAY BE VIEWED AS THE JOINT PRODUCT OF A CRITERION FOR A RESPONSE AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH S DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN THE STIMULI. RESPONSE BIAS IS THUS SEEN TO BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN SINGLE-STIMULUS CLASSICAL CONDITIONING, AND SIGNAL DETECTION METHODS ARE SEEN TO BE RELEVANT TO THE ANALYSIS OF DISCRIMINATION CONDITIONING EXPERIMENTS. PRELIMINARY APPLICATIONS TO PUBLISHED DATA ON SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES SUGGEST THAT SS CLASSIFIED AS "VOLUNTARY," SS WITH HIGH MA SCALE SCORES, AND SS CONDITIONED WITH A HIGH-INTENSITY UCS DIFFER PRIMARILY BY RESPONDING WITH A LOWER CRITERION, I.E., ARE MORE RESPONSIVE, THAN "CONDITIONERS," LOW-MA SS, AND SS CONDITIONED WITH A LOW-INTENSITY UCS. (2 P. REF.)