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FREE‐OPERANT AVOIDANCE CONDITIONING IN INDIVIDUAL AND PAIRED HUMAN SUBJECTS
Author(s) -
Ader Robert,
Tatum Ronald
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1963.6-357
Subject(s) - conditioning , operant conditioning , psychology , avoidance learning , classical conditioning , shock (circulatory) , audiology , developmental psychology , social psychology , reinforcement , medicine , neuroscience , statistics , mathematics
Male, medical and graduate students were subjected to a non‐discriminated avoidance regimen with shock‐shock and response‐shock intervals of 10 sec. Using a yoked‐chair procedure it was found that acquisition of the button‐pressing avoidance response was influenced by the social environment in which the conditioning occurred. There was a significantly greater number of “learners” among subjects conditioned individually than among those exposed to the conditioning procedures in the presence of a second person.
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