Verbal Operant Conditioning, Extinction Trials and Types of Awareness Statement

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ID13656113
AuthorsPatrick O’donnell (0000-0001-7710-7832, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Patrick J O'Donnell (University of Glasgow), Brian Kennedy (0000-0003-3347-917X, University of Glasgow), Peter Mc Gill (University of Glasgow)
Year1983
Volume53
Issue3
Pages991-996
Publication date1983-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3.991
OpenAlexW2005615719
LanguageEN
References cited11

This paper investigated the hypothesis that the rate of reported awareness in verbal operant conditioning is influenced by the interpolation of extinction trials. It also examined a neglected group in the literature, the subjects who report awareness but who do not condition. This group can be as much as 40% of the aware subjects. It is suggested that the most feasible explanation for this group is that they bring different subjective interpretations to the experiment. The kind of awareness statements they offer should differ from aware conditioning subjects. Both hypotheses, the effect of extinction trials and the differing awareness statements of conditioners and non-conditioners, were confirmed. The latter finding is consistent with an unexpected result of the experiment, namely, the differential effect of extinction trials on conditioners and non-conditioners

Audiology · Cognitive psychology · Conditioners · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Operant conditioning · Reinforcement · Statistics · Clinical Psychology · EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces · Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning · Mathematics · Medicine · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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