An
Investigation of Voluntary Responses in Human Classical Eyelid
Conditioning
K. Yamazaki & Y. Miyata |
Voluntary
responses (VR) in human classical eyelid conditioning were analyzed
in this study. In Exp. I, where conditioning under a neutral instruction
was compared with that under a facilitatory instruction, it was suggested
that VRs were not caused by any learning factor, and that the neutral-instruction
conditioning contained a great number of VRs. In Exp. II, where puff
UCS conditioning was compared with noise-UCS conditioning, it was
found that the responses in the puff UCS conditioning attenuated
the aversiveness of the UCS, but not the noise-UCS conditioning.
Any clear-cut conclusion on VRs in conditioning is not derived from
this study, but these results would place some serious limitation
upon this kind of conditioning.
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