Papini M R, Bitterman M E
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth 76129.
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 1993 Oct;19(4):342-52. doi: 10.1037//0097-7403.19.4.342.
It is commonly believed that both a summation test and a retardation test should be used to determine whether a stimulus becomes inhibitory in consequence of some specified treatment, because the 2 tests together rule out alternative interpretations. Depending, however, on the choice of control treatments, a single test may provide credible evidence of inhibition or both together may not. A comprehensive review of the 2-test literature shows that suitable controls have been used only rarely and that compelling evidence of inhibition is correspondingly rare. The only such evidence now available is provided by retardation tests in experiments with some variation of A+/AB- training as the putatively inhibitory treatment.
人们普遍认为，应该使用总和测试和延迟测试来确定某种刺激是否由于某种特定处理而变得具有抑制性，因为这两种测试一起排除了其他解释。然而，根据对照处理的选择，单一测试可能提供抑制的可靠证据，或者两者一起也可能无法提供。对双测试文献的全面回顾表明，很少使用合适的对照，相应地，抑制的有力证据也很少见。目前唯一可用的此类证据来自于以某种A+/AB-训练变体作为假定抑制性处理的实验中的延迟测试。
