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1 TWO TYPES OF CONDITIONED REFLEX AND A PSEUDO TYPE[*] From the Biological Laboratories of Harvard University B.F. Skinner (1935)[1] Classics in the History of Psychology An internet resource developed by Christopher D. Green York University, Toronto, Ontario (Return to Classics index) TWO TYPES OF CONDITIONED REFLEX AND A PSEUDO TYPE[*] From the Biological Laboratories of Harvard University B.F. Skinner (1935)[1] First published in Journal of General Psychology, 12, A conditioned reflex is said to be conditioned in the sense of being dependent for its existence or state upon the occurrence of a certain kind of event, having to do with the presentation of a reinforcing stimulus. A definition that includes much more than this simple notion will probably not be applicable to all cases. At almost any significant level of analysis a distinction must be made between at least two major types of conditioned reflex. These may be represented, with examples, in the following way (where S = stimulus, R = response, (S - R) = reflex, -> = "is followed by," and [ ] = "the strength of" the inclosed reflex): Given such a sequence, where [S 1 -R 1 ] ~ = 0,[2] conditioning occurs as a change in [S o -R o ] - an increase in strength (positive conditioning) in (a) and a decrease (negative conditioning) in (b).[p.67] Given the simultaneous or successive presentation of S' o and S' 1, where [S' 1 ] ~ =0,[2] conditioning occurs as an increase in [S' o ]. Differences between the types are as follows: 1. In Type I, S o ->R o -> S 1, where R o necessarily intervenes between the stimuli; in Type II, S' o ->S' 1, where R' o is ignored.[3] In I, R o is important; it becomes the conditioned response. In II, R' o is irrelevant (except when it is relevant in another sense by conflicting with R' 1 ) and may actually disappear.
2 Since conditioning of the second type may take place even when S' 1 occurs after R' o, Paradigm II, Example (c), may be written for this case as follows: light r > food salivation, when it is identical with I. But the result is not to reduce the two types to a single form. Both kinds of conditioning proceed simultaneously but separately. If r is "turning toward the light," for example, and if the food is withheld until turning takes place, [light - turning] will increase according to I while [light-salivation] will increase according to II. The same result is obtained with negative conditioning. Example (d) gives, upon delaying S' 1, light r > shock flexion, etc., where [light--r] will decrease according to I, while [light-flexion] increases according to II. In the special case in which R o and R' 1 are of the same form, the two kinds can apparently not be separated. If, for example, some unconditioned salivation is supposed to be elicitable by a light,[4] we may substitute "salivation" for r, to obtain light - salivation I > food - salivation II. Both [light - salivation I] and [light - salivation II] will increase, with apparently no possible distinction. This is a very special case and is also in no sense a reduction to a single type. 2. In I, (S o ) occurs normally in the absence of (S 1 - R 1 ), [p.68] and its strength may be measured without interfering with the reinforcing action of S 1. In II S' 1 must be withheld whenever a measurement of [S' o ], the conditioned reflex, is taken, because S' 1 also evokes R' 1. Some amount of extinction necessarily ensues in the second case. 3. Since S' 1 must be withheld in measuring [S' o ], R' 1 must be independent of any property of S' 1 not possessed by S' o. In Example (c) salivation may become attached to the light as a conditioned response of Type II; but seizing, chewing, and swallowing, which are also responses to S' 1, must not be included in the paradigm since they require the presence of parts of S' 1 which cannot be supplied by S' o. A special restriction on Paradigm II is therefore necessary. Where S' o is of a very simple sort (a tone, for example), the properties possessed in addition to S' o by S' 1 are practically equal to S' 1, and we may express the restriction in terms of a general distinction between two kinds of response. The first kind require no external point of reference in their elicitation or description. Typical examples are: glandular activities (salivation), local muscular responses (flexion, wink, breathing movements, production of sounds), and facilitation and inhibition.[5] The second kind require points of reference for their elicitation or description which are not supplied by the organism itself, but by the stimulus. Examples are: orientation toward the source of a sound, approaching a light, and touching, seizing and manipulating objects (such as a lever or food). Our present rule is that responses of the second kind cannot be substituted for R' 1 in Paradigm II, unless S' also supplies the required points of reference. 4. In Type I, [S o ] ~ = 0 before conditioning takes place. The reflex-to-be-conditioned must be elicited at least once as an unconditioned "investigatory" reflex. In Type II, [S' o ] may begin at zero and usually does. In Type I the state of the reflex is "conditioned" by the occurrence of the reinforcing sequence, but its existence is not. A distinction between a conditioned and an unconditioned relfex is here less significant, because all examples of the [p.69] former have necessarily been examples of the latter. There are no exclusively
3 conditioned reflexes in this type. Since [S' o ] may begin at zero, a new reflex may be created in conditioning of the second type. And since practically any stimulus may be attached to R' 1 in Paradigm II, a very large number of new reflexes can thus be derived. Conditioning of Type I, on the other hand, is not a device for increasing the repertory of reflexes; R o continues to be elicited by the one stimulus with which it began. There are three reflexes in Paradigm II, but only two in I. 5. The significant change in Type I may be either an increase or a decrease in strength; in Type II it is an increase only, even when [S' o ] does not begin at zero. In Type I stimuli may be divided into two classes, positively and negatively conditioning, according to whether they produce an increase or decrease when used as reinforcement. The distinction cannot be made in Type II, where a reflex may be negative in another sense (a reflex of "avoidance," for example), but where its strength only increases during conditioning. 6. In Type I the conditioned reflex (S o ) may be associated with any drive; in Type II the reflex (S' o ) is necessarily attached to the drive specified by R' 1. This point may require some comment. In the present use of the term a drive is an inferred variable of which the strength of a group of reflexes is a function (2). Hunger, for example, is a variable (H) a change in which is responsible for concurrent changes in the strength (a) of all unconditioned reflexes concerned with the ingestion of food, (b) of all conditioned reflexes (of either type) in which the reinforcing stimulus is concerned with the ingestion of food, and (c) to a much lesser extent of all "investigatory" reflexes. In Paradigm I, Example a (lever - pressing) is originally a function of H to some slight extent under (c) above. After conditioning it varies with H according to (b), over a wide range probably equal to that of any unconditioned reflex under (a). Conditioning of Type I is really the becoming attached to a group of reflexes varying as a function of some drive. This is a much more comprehensive description of the process than to define it as an increase in strength, where the drive is assumed to remain constant at a significant value. But the identity of H in the present case is [p.70] determined only by our choice of a reinforcing reflex. Given (S 1 - R 1 ) of another drive, say thirst, then (S o ) will become conditioned by attaching itself to the group varying with thirst, and will not vary with H except to some slight extent under (c). This is a characteristic wholly lacking in Type II. Here R' is originally part of the unconditioned reflex and the drive to which it belongs is definitely fixed. 7. A minor difference is in the way in which the stimulus-to-be-conditioned usually acts. In Type I, S o is usually part of a larger field, and R o occurs as the result of the eventual prepotency of S o over other stimuli. In Type II, S' o is usually suddenly presented to the organism. The significance of this difference, which is not absolute, will appear later. We shall now consider a third type of relation which involves a discrimination. It may be based upon a conditioned reflex of either type, but we shall begin with I. To establish a discrimination subdivide S o into two classes on the basis of a selected property or component member (3, 4). For example, let the lever stimulate either in the presence of a light (L), when the stimulus may be written as S A B..L.. (subcripts indicate properties or components), or in the dark, when the stimulus is S A.B.... Continue to reinforce the re-response to one of them, say S A.B..L.., and extinguish or negatively condition the response to the other by breaking the sequence at S 1 or by introducing as S 1 of the negatively conditioning kind (Difference 5). When this has been
4 done, [S A.B..L. ---R o ] > [S A.B.. ---R o ]. And at any value of the underlying drive such that (S A.B..L --- R o ) is usually elicited but (S AB ---R o ) is not, there exists the following condition. Given an organism in the presence of S AB.. ordinarily unresponsive, the presentation of L will be followed by a response. For the sake of comparison we may set up a paradigm in imitation of II as follows: The relation between the light and the response to the lever might be called pseudo-conditioned reflex. It has some of the characteristics of Type II: the original response to the light is irrelevant [p.71] (Difference 1); the relation may be wholly absent prior to the "conditioning" (Difference 4); it changes in a positive direction only (Difference 5); and the "stimulus" is usually of the presented kind (Difference 7). In all these respects it differs from Type I, although the example is based upon a reflex of that type. I many other respects it differs from both types. A reinforcing reflex is not included in the paradigm, but must be added as a third or fourth reflex. The response is not principally to the light, but to the lever; the light is only a component member of the whole stimulus, and "light-pressing" is not legitimately the expression of a reflex. The lever cannot be removed to show the conditioned effectivelness of the light as in Type II; instead, the response to the lever alone must be extinguished - a characteristic that we have not met before. In spite of these differences it is often said (in similar cases) that the light becomes the "conditioned stimulus for the response to the lever" just as it becomes the stimulus for salivation. This is a confusion with Type II which obviously arises from a neglect of the extinguished reflex. The relation of pressing the lever to the lever itself is ignored and only the relation to the light taken into account. The lever comes to be treated, not as a source of stimulation, but as part of the apparatus, relevant to the response only for mechanical reasons. When the discrimination is based upon a response not requiring an external point of reference (Difference 3), the chance of this neglect increases enormously. If we substitute "flexion of a leg" for "pressing a lever" (and continue for the moment with Type I), S o in Paradigm I is not directly observable; we simply wait until a flexion appears, then reinforce. Having established (S o ) as a conditioned reflex of some strength, we subdivide our inferred S o as before, extinguish (S AB.. ), and reinforce (S AB..L.. ). When the discrimination has been set up, we have a condition in which the organism is ordinarily unresponsive but immediately responds with flexion upon presentation of the light. Our inability to demonstrate S o makes it difficult to show the discriminative nature of this relation; but it is by no means impossible to find other grounds, as we may see by comparing it with a true reflex of Type II. Let the presentation of the light be followed by a shock to the foot until the light alone elicits flexion. The resulting reflex is superficially similar to the relation of light and [p.72] flexion that we have just examined, but fundamentally the two cases are unlike. Assuming that no immediate difference can in fact be detected,[6] we may still show differences by referring forward or backward to the history of the organism. The two relations have been established in different ways and their continued existence depends upon reinforcement from different stimuli. The discriminative drive relation also varies with an arbitrarily chosen drive, while the conditioned reflex is necessarily attached to the drive to which shock-flexion belongs. These differences are chiefly due, however, to the use of a conditioned reflex of Type I in setting up the discrimination. In a pseudo-conditioned reflex based upon Type II the distinction is much less sure. Here we are invariably able to neglect the extinguished member because R' 1 is of the kind not requiring an external point of reference (Difference 3), and we can minimize its importance in other ways. Given a conditioned reflex of this kind: if we establish a discrimination between the tone and the tone-plus-a light (reinforcing the resonse to the
5 latter), we obtain the following condition: an organism in the presence of the tone, ordinarily unresponsive, will respond upon presentation of the light. The only difference between this relation and a true reflex of Type II is the extinction of the response to the tone, which is evidence that a discrimination has taken place. The reinforcement of tone and light should condition responses to both of these stimuli; but we observe that the organism is unresponsive in the presence of the tone alone. Now, this surviving difference may be reduced at will by reducing the significance of S' o in the basic reflex of the pseudo-type. If we lower the intensity of the tone or choose another stimulus of a less important kind, we may approach as closely as we please to a conditioned reflex of Type II. We cannot actually reach Type II in [p.73] this way, but we can easily reach a point at which our pseudo-reflex is identical with any actual experimental example of that type. This is true because some amount of discrimination is practically always involved in cases of Type II. When we put a dog into a stand, present a light and then food, the food reinforces not only the light but the stimulation from the stand. Merely putting the dog into the stand again should elicit salivation according to Paradigm II. In practice this is a disturbing effect, which must be eliminated through extinction. So long as it occurs, any actual case of Type II must be formulated as a pseudo-conditioned reflex. If S G is the stimulation affecting the organism in addition to S o, then S o Paradigm II should read S G + S o. The effect upon S G is extinguished through lack of reinforcement in the absence of S o, and the result is a discrimination: an organism is the presence of S G, ordinarily unresponsive, responds when S o is added. The importance of this criticism will depend upon the relative magnitudes of S G and S o. In the optimal experiment S G may be reduced to a value that is insignificant in comparison with ordinary values of S o. The partially discriminative nature of Type II is invevitable. It is not important in Type I because of Difference 1. Paradigm I contains an implicit specification that S o is active or has just acted at the moment of reinforcement, since it specifies that S 1 is to be withheld until R o has occurred. The reinforced stimulus is really S o and not S G + S o (it is the lever, in our example, not the whole stimulating field presented by the apparatus). Paradigm II contains no specification of the activity of S o ; and the reinforcing action of S' 1 must be supposed to extend to S G as well as to S o. In practice an active state at the moment of reinforcement is usually insured by presenting S o suddenly.[7] This might be included as an additional provision in Paradigm II, but the provision really required is that S o, and no part of S G, be active at the moment of reinforcement. This is not easily arranged. We cannot wholly avoid the generalized action of the reinforcement in Type II because of the lack of dependence of S' 1 upon R' o. One characteristic of the pseudo-conditioned reflex is the variety [p.74] of the forms of its "stimulus". We have assumed that in our two fundamental paradigms any stimulus had ultimately the dimensions of energy (although we have often used the shorthand device of speaking of the source of the energy - as, for example, "lever"). In the pseudo type, however, the "stimulus" can be a single property. It can be the intensity of the stimulus, or some such qualitative aspect as pitch or hue. It can be a change from one value of a property to another, or the absence of a property, or a duration. The reason why this is possible is that the other properties of the stimulus can be relegated to S G for extinction. If the pitch of a tone is to be a conditioned "stimulus," the tone itself must first become one also, and the response to its other properties must be extinguished by extinguishing the responses to tones of other pitches. In a true conditioned reflex this cannot be done. Although it is common to speak of properties as stimuli (1), the presence of a property in the position of a stimulus is a certain indication that a pseudo-conditioned reflex is really in quesiton. A property alone cannot be used in either true type because it implies extinction; most of the real stimulus must be relegated to S G, and the requirement that the value of S G be negligible cannot therefore be satisfied.
6 The position of a pseudo-conditioned reflex may be summarized as follows. When the pseudoreflex is based upon a reflex of Type I and when R o requires external points of reference, there are important practical and theoretical reasons why a separate formulation is demanded. When R o does not require external points of reference, there are fewer differences, but a separate formulation is still necessary. When the pseudo type is based upon a reflex of Type II, the distinction is weakened but should still be made, except when S G can be reduced to a very low value relative to S' o. In the last case a practical distinction is impossible, not because of an identity of types, but because of the failure of Type II to appear experimentally in a pure form. It is a tempting hypothesis that II is not an authentic type but may be reduced to a discrimination based on Type I. But this has not been shown; we have not reduced the pseudo type to Type II or vice versa. Nor have we come very near it. The present pseudo-reflex which resembles II most closely requires of that type for its establishment. It is probably more than a coincidence that [p.75] a discrimination based upon Type I has so many of the properties of II, but the reduction to a single type appears from our present evidence to be highly improbable, desirable though it would be as an immense simplification. The differences that we have noted are not easily disposed of. Still more improbable is a reduction of I to II, since the first step supplied by the pseudo type is then lacking. To the differences we have listed might be added differences in the parts played by the two types in the economy of the organism. The essence of Type II is the substitution of one stimulus for another, or, as Pavlov has put it, signalization (1). It prepares the organism by obtaining the elicitation of a response before the original stimulus has begun to act, and it does this by letting any stimulus that has incidently accompanied or anticipated the original stimulus act in its stead. In Type I there is no substitution of stimuli and consequently no signalization. Type I acts in another way: the organism selects from a large repertory of unconditioned reflexes those of which the repetition is important with respect to certain elementary functions and discards those of which it is unimportant. The conditioned response of Type I does not prepare for the reinforcing stimulus, it produces it. The stimulus-to-be-conditioned is never in any sense incidental. Type I plays the more important rôle. When an organism comes accidentally[8] upon a new kind of food, which it seizes and eats, both kinds of conditioning presumably occur. When the visible radiation from the food next stimulates the organism, salivation is evoked according to Paradigm II. This secretion remains useless until the food is actually seized and eaten. But seizing and eating will depend upon the same accidental factors as before unless conditioning of Type I has also occurred - that is, unless the strength of the reflex (food-seizing) has increased. Thus while a reflex of Type II prepares the organism, a reflex of Type I obtains the food for which the preparation is made. And this is in general a fair characterization of the relative importance of the two types. As Pavlov has said, conditioned stimuli are important in providing saliva before food is received, but "even greater is their importance when they evoke the motor component of the complex reflex of nutrition, i.e., [p.7 6] when they act as stimuli to the reflex of seeking food." (1, p.13).[9] Although "the reflex of seeking food" is an unfortunate expression, it refers clearly enough to behavior characteristic of Type I. Footnotes [*] Accepted for publication by Carl Murchison of the Editorial Board and received in the Editorial Office, June 4, [1] Society of Fellows, Harvard University. [2] This expression specifies the presence of some amount of drive (2).
7 [3] For convenience we shall omit the case of simultaneous stimuli in Type II. [4] See Difference 4 below for this general requirement in Type I. [5] Where conditioned facilitation and inhibition are defined by substituting for R' 1 in Paradigm II the expressions "Incr. [S" - R"]" and "Decr. [S" - R"]" respectively. (Incr. = "increase in"; Decr. = "decrease in"). [6] This is a generous assumption since some evidence for the presence of S o can usually be found. A difference in the character of the response might also be shown (in the case of the true reflex it may be accompanied by changes in breathing rate, for example, which would be lacking in the pseudo reflex). [7] This is our explanation of Difference 7. Another explanation might be added. If S' o is active for any length of time prior to S 1 it will have an extinguishing effect. This cannot be said of Type I. [8] That is to say, as the result of weak investigatory reflexes. [9] This is a doubly interesting statement because Pavlov has confined his own investigations practically exclusively to conditioned reflexes of the second type. It ought to be said that he usually regards this type as adequate for the whole field. Thus he says that the "function of the hemispheres" is signalization (1, p.17), although signalization is, as we have seen, a characteristic of Type II only. References 1. Pavlov, I.P. Conditioned reflexes (Trans. & ed. by G.V. Anrep) London: Oxford Univ. Press, Pp xvi Skinner, B.F. Drive and reflex strength: I. J. Gen. Psychol., 1932, 6, The rate of establishment of a discrimination. J. Gen. Psychol., 1933, 9, The generic nature of the concepts of stimulus and response. J. Gen. Psychol., 1935, 12, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts DEUX TYPES DU RÉFLEXE CONDITIONEL ET UN PSEUDO-TYPE (Résumé) On définit deux types principaux du réflexe conditionnel et donne une liste des différences entre eux. Un pseudo-réflexe conditionel, où il s'agit d'une discrimination, peut être basé sur le Type I pour donner quelques-unes des propriétés du Type II. Quand it est basé sur le Type II il se peut dans un cas spécial, qu'on ne puisse le distinguer de ce type, mais cela est dû au manque du Type II de se montrer expérimentalement dans une forme pure et n'indique pas une réduction à un seul type. Dans une pseudo-réflexe le "stimulus" peut avoir la forme d'une seule propriété, mais cela n'est possible dans l'un ni l'autre vrai type. On note la place de
8 chaque type dans l'économie de l'organisme. Skinner ZWEI TYPEN DES BEDINGTEN REFLEXES UND EIN PSEUDOTYPUS (Referat) Zwei Haupttypen des bedingten Reflexes werden bestimmt und Unterschiede zwischen ihnen angegeben. Ein pseudobedingter Reflex, der eine Unterscheidung voraussetzt kann auf Typus I beruhen, so dass er einige der Eigenschaften von Typus II aufweist. Wenn er auf Typus II beruht, kann er in einem besonderem Fall nicht unterscheidbar von jenem Typus sein, aber dies ist die Folge der Nichterscheinung des Typus II experimentell in einer reinen Form und beweist eine Zurückführung auf einen einzelnen Typus nicht. Bei einem Pseudoreflex kann der "Reiz" die Form einer einzelnen Eigenschaft besitzen, aber dies ist nicht möglich in den beiden wahren Typen. Die Stellung jedes Typus in der Ökonomie des Organismus wird bemerkt. Skinner
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