Abstract
Effects of the number and type of relatedness of visually presented stimulus words upon differential eyelid conditioning were investigated. Conditioning with one reinforced and one nonreinforced word was compared with conditioned discrimination in which two or four words constituted the reinforced and nonreinforced sets. In the two and four word sets the words were unrelated, synonyms, homophones, or designated members of a common taxonomic class, or conveyed a common sensory impression (U-R words). Increasing set size of unrelated words decreased terminal discrimination. Increasing set size of taxonomically related words improved terminal discrimination of V-form responders but not that of C-form responders. Discrimination of Vs was unchanged but that of Cs was improved by increasing the size of the other word sets.
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