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MAINTENANCE AND SUPPRESSION OF RESPONDING UNDER SCHEDULES OF ELECTRIC SHOCK PRESENTATION 1
Author(s) -
McKearney James W.
Publication year - 1972
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.1972.17-425
Subject(s) - schedule , psychology , shock (circulatory) , session (web analytics) , food delivery , stimulus (psychology) , interval (graph theory) , audiology , computer science , mathematics , cognitive psychology , medicine , combinatorics , marketing , world wide web , business , operating system
In squirrel monkeys previously trained under a continuous avoidance schedule, characteristic patterns of responding were maintained under a 3‐min variable‐interval schedule of shock presentation (response‐produced shock). Responding in the presence of a periodically presented stimulus, the termination of which coincided with the delivery of a response‐independent electric shock (Estes‐Skinner procedure), was not reliably affected. When shocks followed every response during certain signalled portions of the session, and were presented under the variable‐interval schedule during the rest of the session (multiple 1‐response fixed‐ratio, 3‐min variable‐interval schedule of shock presentation), responding was suppressed during the fixed‐ratio component and maintained during the variable‐interval component. Environmental consequences do not have immutable properties, and may either support or suppress behavior, depending on the schedule of presentation.