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The main purposes are to (a) indicate that CR and instrumental response strengths are related to response strengths to perceived reinforcers establishing these learned responses, and (b) suggest that learned responses may result, in part, from images of reinforcers, because image-produced behavior is related to stimulus-produced behavior, analogous to learned response strength being related to perceived reinforcer response strength. In addition, that image-produced behavior is related to stimulus-produced behavior is supported, and specific ways in which image-produced behavior may contribute to classical and instrumental conditioning are touched on.
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King, D.L. Learned and perceived reinforcer response strengths and image theory. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 438–441 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337240
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