PUNISHMENT BY NOISE IN AN ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE SITUATION1
- 1 March 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 7 (2) , 185-188
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1964.7-185
Abstract
Operant responses of human subjects were conditioned according to a variable-interval schedule of positive reinforcement. A brief noise was delivered as punishment for each of the responses. The noise suppressed the punished responses more when an alternative unpunished response was concurrently available than when only a single punished response was available. This finding extends the generality of a previous study that had used a period of extinction rather than the brief noise as the punishing stimulus.Keywords
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