Extinction by omission of food as a function of goal-box confinement.
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 48 (4) , 271-274
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0058191
Abstract
Twenty-one albino rats were conditioned to run a straight alley and enter a goal box containing if food; then 7 rats were extinguished with a 10-sec. goal-box confinement, 7 with a 30-sec. confinement, seven with a 60-sec. confinement. Resistance to extinction was found to be an inverse function of duration of goal box confinement. This finding was predicted on the basis of a competing response theory of extinction.Keywords
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