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Four treatment groups were employed in a differential classical eyelid conditioning study. The discrimination required of the four groups was of varying complexity and was sufficiently difficult to produce a substantial number of subjects who were not aware of the reinforcement contingencies. Awareness was assessed by a postexperimental questionnaire. The findings were consistent with the generalization that awareness is a necessary but not sufficient condition for differential responding. Moreover, it was found that the probability of a subject’s learning to discriminate, conditional upon his being aware, was independent of treatment condition.
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Benish, W.A., Grant, D.A. Subject awareness in differential classical eyelid conditioning. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 15, 431–432 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334581
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