Maintenance of Avoidance Behavior under Temporally Defined Contingencies
- 27 January 1961
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 133 (3448) , 284-285
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.133.3448.284-a
Abstract
Operant behavior of rats was maintained at moderate frequencies by a temporally defined shock avoidance schedules. Progressive reductions in one of the temporal parameters of this schedule—the portion during which behavior may have consequences—yield an orderly response rate function which first rises to a maximum and then declines gradually to extinction.Keywords
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