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SOME EFFECTS OF CORRELATION BETWEEN RESPONSE‐CONTINGENT SHOCK AND REINFORCEMENT 1
Author(s) -
Murray Marcia,
Nevin John A.
Publication year - 1967
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.1967.10-301
Subject(s) - reinforcement , shock (circulatory) , uncorrelated , correlation , component (thermodynamics) , discriminative model , negative correlation , extinction (optical mineralogy) , psychology , statistics , social psychology , mathematics , physics , computer science , artificial intelligence , medicine , thermodynamics , optics , geometry
Rats responded on a two‐component chain schedule in which a response‐contingent electric shock at the end of the first component was either positively correlated, negatively correlated, or uncorrelated with reinforcement availability in the second component. With 0.4‐ma shocks, rate in the first component depended on the shock‐reinforcement correlation: when shock and reinforcement availability were positively correlated, after extended exposure to the contingencies, rates exceeded those in the absence of shock; when shock and reinforcement availability were negatively correlated, responding was generally suppressed throughout. The discriminative control of shock over responding in the second component, in which reinforcement was available 50% of the time, also depended somewhat on correlation. However, rate change in the first component was not specifically related to discrimination in the second component. With 0.8‐ma shocks, responding was substantially suppressed in the first component at all three values of shock‐reinforcement correlations.