Resistance to Extinction as a Function of Instrumental Training under Two Levels of Food Deprivation and a Shift in Incentive
- 1 December 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 13 (3) , 783-785
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1963.13.3.783
Abstract
Four groups of 8 albino rats each were magazine trained under high or low drive, barpress trained with the same 32% sucrose incentive or water (designed to produce “frustration”), and tested in extinction with an inoperative magazine. The results confirmed earlier ones obtained with an inaccessible-food training operation in that the major factor determining extinction performance was terminal level of reinforced responding in training.Keywords
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