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SCHEDULES USING NOXIOUS STIMULI. VI: AN INTERLOCKING SHOCK‐POSTPONEMENT SCHEDULE IN THE SQUIRREL MONKEY 1
Author(s) -
Kelleher R. T.,
Morse W. H.
Publication year - 1969
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.1969.12-1063
Subject(s) - shock (circulatory) , schedule , squirrel monkey , postponement , interval (graph theory) , computer science , mathematics , psychology , neuroscience , operations management , medicine , engineering , combinatorics , operating system
Responding was studied under various schedules of electric shock postponement and presentatation in the squirrel monkey. Under an interlocking shock‐postponement schedule, successive responses decreased the time by which a response postponed the next scheduled shock until a shock immediately followed the n th response. Some parameters of this schedule, which can be formally related to fixed‐interval schedules, engendered a pattern of positively accelerated responding between shocks. This pattern did not occur under comparable parameter values of an alternative fixed‐ratio, avoidance schedule under which each response postponed shock by a fixed duration and every n th response produced shock. Subsequently, performances were studied under schedules of shock presentation. Responding was never maintained under fixed‐ratio schedules of shock presentation, but was maintained with a pattern of positive acceleration under an alternative fixed‐ratio, fixed‐interval schedule and under a fixed‐interval schedule.