ABSTRACT
THE investigation being reported in this chapter was initially planned as an attack on the problem of generality amongst various measures obtained from different conditioning procedures. An additional question of central moment was that of how regularly different conditioning measures related to the personality parameters introversion/extraversion and neuroticism. It will be recalled that a good deal of research has been carried out into the problem of how eyeblink conditioning relates to these two parameters by Eysenck and by his associates (Franks, 1956; Franks, 1957a; Franks, 1957b; Eysenck, 1957). It had been hoped to extend that research in this present investigation by utilizing conditioning techniques other than eyeblink conditioning. In fact, this aim has been only partly realized because on closer acquaintance with what were techniques new to the investigators, their status as conditioning processes seems somewhat dubious as will become clear in the later discussion of the results.
