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Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz

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Staddon, JE
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
September 1, 1975

Comments on the article by H. Davis (see record 1975-20006-001) which proposed the concept of "autocontingencies" to describe the unscheduled and unintended relations that exist between important experimental events. The need for the term "autocontingency" is questioned, the Davis proposal that contingencies related to postfood and postshock time are subtle in their effects is challenged, and the alternative possibility that the fixed CS duration means that time since CS onset is a predictor of CS offset is suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1975 American Psychological Association.

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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0096-3445

Publication Date

September 1, 1975

Volume

104

Issue

3

Start / End Page

189 / 191

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Staddon, J. E. (1975). Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 104(3), 189–191. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.189
Staddon, J. E. “Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 104, no. 3 (September 1, 1975): 189–91. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.189.
Staddon JE. Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 1975 Sep 1;104(3):189–91.
Staddon, J. E. “Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 104, no. 3, Sept. 1975, pp. 189–91. Scopus, doi:10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.189.
Staddon JE. Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 1975 Sep 1;104(3):189–191.

Published In

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

DOI

ISSN

0096-3445

Publication Date

September 1, 1975

Volume

104

Issue

3

Start / End Page

189 / 191

Related Subject Headings

  • Experimental Psychology
  • 52 Psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology