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A COMPARISON OF TWO TYPES OF EXTINCTION FOLLOWING FIXED‐RATIO TRAINING 1
Author(s) -
Weissman Norman W.,
Crossman Edward K.
Publication year - 1966
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.1966.9-41
Subject(s) - reinforcement , stimulus control , extinction (optical mineralogy) , group cohesiveness , stimulus (psychology) , discriminative model , audiology , statistics , psychology , mathematics , conditioning , zoology , biology , social psychology , medicine , artificial intelligence , optics , computer science , cognitive psychology , physics , neuroscience , nicotine
Five groups of pigeons were food reinforced on various schedules. Half of each group were extinguished in the normal manner; the others were presented with a stimulus change, previously paired with reinforcement, each time they completed their respective fixed ratios. Response rate in training was an increasing negatively accelerated function of the FR. Increasing the FR produced transitory rate changes, the amount of which yielded a quantitative index of ratio strain. Cumulative records of extinction performance revealed that the stimulus change exerted discriminative control by maintaining the cohesiveness of FR response units. Nevertheless, neither the absolute number of extinction responses nor extinction response units differed appreciably for the two extinction procedures.