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Unexpected Effects of Masking: Differential EDR Conditioning Without Relational Learning
Author(s) -
Baer Paul E.,
Fuhrer Marcus J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1973.tb01090.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conditioning , classical conditioning , cognitive psychology , unconditioned stimulus , statistical relational learning , fear conditioning , stimulus (psychology) , measures of conditioned emotional response , developmental psychology , neuroscience , information retrieval , computer science , statistics , mathematics , amygdala , relational database
ABSTRACT The issue of whether the autonomic activity of intellectually capable human S s can be differentially conditioned without their knowledge of the CS‐UCS relations is examined. Results from two recent studies are presented showing that differential electrodermal conditioning can be obtained when Ss are distracted from recognition of the CS‐UCS relations by embedding the conditional stimuli in a probability learning task. The characteristics of conditioning with and without awareness of the stimulus relations are described, and evaluated for accord with Razran's (1955) propositions regarding relational learning and “true’ conditioning.