Stimulus and stimulus-change factors governing the free operant rats.
- 1 June 1962
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 55 (3) , 375-380
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0042031
Abstract
Illumination of the cage was used as reinforcement for lever pressing in rats. Although response rate usually decreases within session in such a situation, repeated presentations of the illumination not produced by the Ss led to a recovery in subsequent lever pressing, a recovery equal to that of Ss given no reinforcements in the interval. This is thought to rule out explanations of response decrement in terms of stimulus satiation, in favor of a reactive-inhibition formulation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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