IS BAR‐HOLDING WITH NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT PREPARATORY OR PERSEVERATIVE?
- 1 September 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 10 (5) , 461-465
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1967.10-461
Abstract
Three of four white rats learned to press first one bar and then another to escape or avoid electric shocks. Cumulative bar-holding-time records showed that holding occurred frequently on the second bar but hardly ever on the first, indicating that bar-holding is more “perserverative” than “preparatory”. The response chain, first-bar press second-bar press, was more easily established by a forward than by a backward chaining procedure.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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