The facilitation of experimental extinction by response prevention as a function of the acquisition of a new response.
- 1 January 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 48 (1), 14-16
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0042718
Abstract
The purpose was to clarify the process by which albino rats, prevented from making an avoidance response early in extinction trials, extinguish more rapidly than those treated in a traditional manner. It was demonstrated that when the avoidance chamber was treated as a goal box, latencies were significantly greater for animals whose avoidance responses had been interrupted early in the extinction of previous avoidance training than for a group which had been extinguished in a normal fashion and a control group of naive Ss. These findings were interpreted to suggest that more rapid extinction following response interruption results from the acquisition of a new response which competes with avoidance running.Keywords
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