Use of Withdrawal of Reinforcement within the Escape-Avoidance Paradigm
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 19 (3) , 959-965
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.3.959
Abstract
With rats as Ss, an analog of shock escape-avoidance was developed in which withdrawal of positive reinforcement served in lieu of noxious stimulation. Efficient escape behavior developed with latencies varying as a function of the rate of reinforcement reinstated by the conditioned response, but avoidance behavior was infrequent. The results were considered from the standpoint of whether the escape response was positively reinforced through onset of the period of reinforcement or negatively reinforced through termination of the period of non-reinforcement.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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