标题：CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN INSTRUCTIONS, PERFORMANCE, AND SELF-DESCRIPTIONS IN A CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION TASK: THE EFFECTS OF FEEDBACK AND TYPE OF MATCHING RESPONSE
摘要：Four experiments were designed to evaluate the functionalcorrespondence of effective performance with correct or incorrectinstructions and correct or incorrect self-descriptions in a first-ordermatching-to-sample task. These studies included verbal or nonverbalmatching responses and provided feedback or not after theparticipants described their matching performance. The results pointto three possible discrimination learning processes in humans: (1)learning through instructions, with a possible insensitivity toconsequences unless the correspondence between instructions andfeedback breaks down; (2) learning through feedback, with aninability of participants to describe their own behavior; and (3) agenuine "rule-governed" behavior consisting of successful taskperformance and explicit verbal behavior describing the actualcontingencies effective for such performance.
