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SUMMATION OF CONDITIONED SUPPRESSION 1
Author(s) -
Houten Ronald Van,
O'Leary K. Daniel,
Weiss Stanley J.
Publication year - 1970
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.1970.13-75
Subject(s) - measures of conditioned emotional response , stimulus (psychology) , classical conditioning , neutral stimulus , unconditioned stimulus , psychology , conditioning , conditioned emotional response , stimulus control , neuroscience , reinforcement , cognitive psychology , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , nicotine
Four rats were trained to suppress responses in the presence of two separately presented stimuli that signalled shock in a conditioned‐suppression paradigm. The two stimuli that signalled shock were then presented simultaneously to evaluate the effect of stimulus compounding on conditioned suppression. Two rats were tested by presenting the compound conditioned stimulus while conditioned suppression was being maintained to the individual conditioned stimuli. The other two rats were tested by giving them random presentations of the compound conditioned stimulus and the single conditioned stimuli during extinction of conditioned suppression. All four rats showed greater suppression to the compound stimulus than to either stimulus presented alone.