ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to offer a perspective on processes observed during the course of the acquisition of skeletal responses with the Pavlovian method. The words were chosen deliberately. It is not a chapter devoted to a perspective on or a theory of Pavlovian conditioning. As I've observed elsewhere (Prokasy, 1965, p. 208), Pavlovian, or classical, conditioning as a label has been used in many ways: as virtually synonymous with a unit of behavior; as a representation of a general process of learning; as one form of learning with properties unique to the method; as a measure of associative strength; and as a set of experimental operations.
