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It is time to inhibit Pavlovian conditioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

John Limber
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03824 [email protected] pubpages.unh.edu/~jel

Abstract

Despite a promising introduction, Domjan et al.'s target article fails to capitalize on the concept of information intrinsic to control theory. The authors limit their application of feed-forward models to simple nondynamic cases. Their applications to social behavior are stimulus-occasioned responses. Agents might as well be dogfood! The notion of “conditioning” is generalized without warrant to explain virtually any acquired predictive capability.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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