Thirty rats were trained in a straight alley with food as a reward. For extinction, they were divided into three groups according to the type of response to be learned to frustration. One group learned a temporally compatible escape response of jumping out of the goal box, while a second group learned a directly incompatible response of recoiling from the goal box. A third group was extinguished according to traditional procedures of confinement in the goal box. The results demonstrate that a directly incompatible recoil response produces relatively rapid extinction of the original approach response, while a temporally compatible escape response to frustration produces little or no extinction of the original response.