The ‘voluntary/involuntary’ and ‘operant/respondent’ labels seem to identify the same classes of events. A reminder — in behavior analysis, ‘operant’ and ‘respondent’ refer to functions, not events. The same behavior can (and in this case does) appear to have both respondent and operant functions.
On Oct 21, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Michael Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > What would happen if the child did not open his mouth? The problem seems > similar to distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary (conditioned) > eyeblinks in humans. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. > <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve been watching a film of Pavlov’s conditioning experiments that was (I > believe) taken in his lab. I was surprised to discover that, in an experiment > on a child, they seemed to be studying what eventually came to be called > “operant conditioning,” not “Pavlovian conditioning.” I know that early > learning researchers did not make a clear distinction between the two. But I > was surprised that Pavlov and his colleagues apparently confused the two, as > well. > > In the experiment, a boy was conditioned to open his mouth when his hand was > stimulated. When he did this, a cookie was “shot” into his mouth. The film > states that the “conditioned reflex” is opening the mouth in response to hand > stimulation. > > I need to get to class, but you can watch the clip here: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmqf25fexkq6pja/Pavlov%20-%20Operant%20Conditioning%20in%20Humans.mp4?dl=0 > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47076 or send a blank email to leave-47076-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
