PUNISHMENT AS A DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS AND CONDITIONED REINFORCER WITH HUMANS1
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 9 (4) , 411-419
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1966.9-411
Abstract
Mental hospital patients were reinforced for responding in a two-response operant situation. When a noise was used to punish one of the responses, all subjects shifted to the unpunished one. When the noise was then paired with positive reinforcement, the subjects responded to produce the noise. Also, a novel response was reinforced by noise in the absence of other reinforcers. This study with humans extends the findings of previous studies with animals in revealing how a punishing stimulus can acquire discriminative or conditioned reinforcing properties.Keywords
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