Visual Reinforcement of Nonnutritive Sucking in Human Infants
- 12 September 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 165 (3898) , 1144-1146
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.165.3898.1144
Abstract
High-amplitude sucking was studied as a conditioned operant response reinforced by visual feedback in 4- and 12-month infants. Typical response acquisition and extinction effects were obtained. With the 12-month infants the conditioned sucking rates were influenced by amounts of redundancy in the visual reinforcers.Keywords
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