Performance on Learning to Associate a Stimulus with Positive Reinforcement

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As Boakes notes in the introduction to his chapter, we do not presently have an adequate performance model for Pavlovian conditioning, which leaves us in a less than ideal position to understand the nature of operant-Pavlovian interactions. Boakes suggests that the attention directed to the autoshaping of pigeons has been something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it has caused us to reconsider a range of experimental situations and puzzling phenomena. On the other hand, however, the dependence of interpretations of autoshaping on pigeon key-pecking data has perhaps lead to an unwarranted emphasis on the stimulus substitution theory, which Boakes feels is an inadequate performance model for Pavlovian conditioning in general.

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