THE ELIMINATION OF INTERFERING RESPONSE PATTERNS IN LEVER‐PRESS AVOIDANCE SITUATIONS1
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 13 (1) , 51-56
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1970.13-51
Abstract
Lever holding into shock and short-latency responses to shock onset are two response patterns that interfere with avoidance acquisition in free-operant and discriminated avoidance situations. In an attempt to eliminate these patterns, an additional timer disabled the lever for a period slightly longer than shock duration. A free-operant avoidance schedule with a warning stimulus, but without the additional timer, constituted the control condition. The lever-disabling timer was turned on by different events in two experimental conditions: (a) release of the lever at the onset of shock, (b) shock onset. Interfering responses diminished most rapidly, and efficient avoidance behavior appeared earliest, when the lever-disabling timer was turned on by shock onset.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- EXTINCTION OF SIDMAN AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR1Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1968
- IS BAR‐HOLDING WITH NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT PREPARATORY OR PERSEVERATIVE?Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1967
- TWO PATTERNS OF AVOIDANCE RESPONDINGJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1964
- A METHOD FOR RAPID CONDITIONING OF STABLE AVOIDANCE BAR PRESSING BEHAVIOR1Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1963
- On problems of conditioning discriminated lever-press avoidance responses.Psychological Review, 1960
- SOME NOTES ON “BURSTS” IN FREE‐OPERANT AVOIDANCE EXPERIMENTSJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1958