Pseudoconditioning?
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 59 (2) , 271-274
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0021847
Abstract
A wheel-turn response was studied to test the hypothesis that instrumental escape conditioning is necessary to obtain pseudoconditioning effects in an avoidance situation. In Experiment 1, standard avoidance conditioning was compared with a noncontingent yoked condition. In Experiment 2, escape conditioning was compared with noncontingent yoked conditions. The result that the response contingencies were critical was further confirmed by the fact that adventitious reinforcement accounted for a large part of the responding in the noncontingent yoked groups.Keywords
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