At 1:49 PM -0500 11/14/05, Ken Steele wrote:
Mike Palij wrote:
On the basis of Dworkin & Miller's review, I thought that most
of the operant conditioning of autonomic response research was
suspect or questionable. Am I incorrect in this interpreation?
I think that the issue had to do with direct vs. indirect
conditioning of an autonomic response. Since the rat was curarized,
then the effect was due to direct conditioning of an autonomic
response with an operant conditioning technique. This direct
control was not supposed to happen.
There are lots of operant techniques that will control autonomic
activity indirectly, such as operant control of the amounts of diet
and exercise.
Or as I tell my students, it's easy to use operant conditioning to
increase heart rate: just reinforce someone for jumping up and down.
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