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STIMULUS GENERALIZATION OF SCHEDULE‐INDUCED POLYDIPSIA
Author(s) -
Hamm Robert J.,
Porter Joseph H.,
Kaempf George L.
Publication year - 1981
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.1981.36-93
Subject(s) - licking , polydipsia , audiology , schedule , psychology , stimulus generalization , stimulus (psychology) , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , computer science , medicine , endocrinology , perception , diabetes mellitus , operating system
Five rats were exposed to an intradimensional discrimination by associating two tones of different frequency with the components of a multiple random‐time 30‐sec, extinction schedule of food presentation. After schedule‐induced polydipsia developed and the intermittent schedule of food presentation established stable differential licking rates during the stimuli associated with the multiple schedule, a stimulus generalization test was conducted. When generalization testing was conducted by presenting stimuli that varied on the frequency dimension during the random‐time 30‐sec component of the multiple schedule, all five rats demonstrated moderately sloping symmetrical gradients. Thus, schedule‐induced polydipsia can be brought under the control of stimuli other than the food pellet.