The behavioral specificity of stimulation: a systems approach to procedural distinctions of classical and instrumental conditioning.
This paper presents a new methodological approach to classical Pavlovian investigations. Using a yoked group for stimulus pairing trial pacing, behavioral occurrence frequencies, sequential behavior patterns, and behavioral change dynamics are analyzed for rats in both a non-discriminative and a general setting discrimination paradigm. Theoretical issues addressed by a variety of new dependent measures are discussed, and a special emphasis is placed on comparing instrumental and classical procedures as viewed from the behavioral perspective of the subject.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors