Over sixty years ago, B. F. Skinner proposed that a discriminative   stimulus in an operant conditioning paradigm does not elicit a response   but simply "sets the occasion" for the response to occur. More recently,   investigators have claimed that, whereas in many Pavlovian conditioning   paradigms a conditioned stimulus (CS) elicits a conditioned response (CR)   because it signals the occurrence of an unconditioned stimulus, in other   paradigms a CS elicits a CR because it sets the occasion for the   responding produced by another CS. The eminent group of experimental   psychologists and theoreticians who authored the chapters of this book   discuss the current status of data and theories concerning simple   classical conditioning and occasion setting. Part 1 compares the   properties of simple stimuli and occasion setters; Part 2 analyzes the   different paradigms in which the concept of occasion setting can be   applied; and Part 3 introduces four formal models of classical   conditioning that address occasion setting.

Occasion Setting: Associative Learning and Cognition in Animals (Apa Science Volumes) PDF

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