The Preference-for-Signalled-Shock Phenomenon: Signalling Shock is Reinforcing only if Shock is Modifiable
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- 1 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 22 (4) , 681-685
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14640747008401946
Abstract
Inescapable, unavoidable, 5-sec. shocks were preceded by 5-sec. white-noise signals contingent on previously food-trained (FR 40) bar pressing of 20 rats. Twenty yoked-control subjects receiving the same, but non-contingent, series of signals indicated that the signal was reliably reinforcing only if the shocks were delivered through an alternate, rather than scrambled, floor-grid system. Implications are discussed for previous reports of the preference for signalled shock phenomenon.Keywords
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