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The present classical-classical transfer experiment involved three stages. In the first stage, tone-CS and water-US presentations were employed to condition the rabbit’s jaw-movement response. In the second stage, the nictitating membrane response was conditioned using light-CS and shock-US pairings. In Stage 3, the tone and light stimuli were successively presented in a compound without USs with jaw-movement and nictitating membrane CRs being recorded. The results indicated that prior jaw-movement conditioning disrupted the initial acquisition of the nictitating membrane CR; compound tone and light presentations obliterated jaw-movement performance; and minimal cross-modal generalization of the nictitating membrane CR occurred to the tone on compound CS presentations. The findings were evaluated with regard to the manner in which Pavlovian mediation is produced in classical-instrumental transfer designs with the obtained results agreeing with opponent-process motivational interpretations of Pavlovian mediational effects.
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This research was supported by USPHS grant MH-24518-01 and the Friends of the State University. The paper was sponsored by Russell Revlis who takes full editorial responsibility for its contents.
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Scavio, M.J. Classical-classical transfer: CR interactions involving appetitive and aversive CSs and USs. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 475–477 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337541
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