LEVER HOLDING UNDER FREE‐OPERANT AVOIDANCE1
- 1 November 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 10 (6) , 551-554
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1967.10-551
Abstract
Rate of response under a free-operant avoidance procedure decreases as the response-shock interval increases. The present experiment demonstrated an inverse relation between rate of response and lever-holding time. An invariance was found in the total time per session that a subject was in contact with the lever. It is suggested that lever-holding behavior may be as sensitive as response rate to changes in the response-shock interval.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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