Abstract
Either implicitly or explicitly, most workers in the last two decades have adopted the (imperialistic) view that conditioning is simply the learning of (cognitive) S-S relationships, and that (noncognitive) S-R factors are irrelevant. I shall remind us of some contrary evidence from human Pavlovian autonomic conditioning (HPAC), consideration of which may spoil our neat cognitive picture (representation?) of the world, but may also lead both to a better understanding of the conditioning phenomenon and to more genuinely useful applications of conditioning principles to behavioral (including psychophysiological) problems.
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Furedy, J.J. Some recalcitrant views on the role of noncognitive S-R factors in human pavlovian autonomic conditioning. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 26, 21–25 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02690974
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