Stimulus Intensity, Stimulus Satiation, and Optimum Stimulation with Light-Contingent Bar-Press
- 1 August 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 13 (1), 107-111
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1963.13.1.107
Abstract
Three groups of hooded rats were tested in a Skinner box with light reinforcement, using two intensity levels and both fixed and variable light locations after dark operant pretests. The results lend support both to a stimulus satiation hypothesis and to an optimal stimulation hypothesis. It is suggested that intensity and light location are potent variables which have opposite effects on response level, intensity showing relatively more rapid effects.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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