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CONTROL OF RESPONDING BY THE ELEMENTS OF A COMPOUND DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS AND BY THE ELEMENTS AS INDIVIDUAL DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULI 1
Author(s) -
Birkimer John C.
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.1969.12-431
Subject(s) - stimulus control , reinforcement , discriminative model , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , noise (video) , audiology , extinction (optical mineralogy) , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , biology , artificial intelligence , computer science , medicine , social psychology , image (mathematics) , nicotine , paleontology
In the first of two studies, the responding of four albino rats was differentially reinforced in the presence of noise and light together and then tested in the presence of the noise and the light separately during extinction. The light exercised substantially more control of responding than did the noise. In the second study the responding of a similar group of four rats was differentially reinforced in the presence of the noise and the light separately. Control of responding by the light developed more rapidly than control by the noise. Results suggest that levels of control by stimuli after differential reinforcement with respect to the stimuli together can be predicted by the rates of development of control during differential reinforcement with respect to the stimuli separately.