Inferring cognitive processes associated with alcohol-related behavior: Reply to Kerby (1995).

With the acceptance of cognitive science, the biological substrate linking stimulus to response has come to be usefully viewed as "hardware" that can support learned "software." A recent article (B. C. Rather & M. S. Goldman; see record 1994-29505-001) focused on the development of "software" associated with alcohol consumption in the form of theoretical network models of alcohol expectancies. The comment by D. S. Kerby (see record 1996-01212-001) inappropriately removed from the context of theoretical modeling out discussion of the cluster analyses and suggested that these analyses were incorrectly interpreted to offer conclusion about real-time behavior and cognitive events. In fact, our interpretation is entirely consistent with model-building approaches, which are further explained. Other strategies for clarifying issues raised by this discussion also are reviewed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)