Variability of Response Duration during Punishment
- 1 August 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 21 (1), 121-127
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1967.21.1.121
Abstract
Three rats were first trained to make a bar-press-release response for regular reinforcement and then exposed to 22 sessions of concurrent reinforcement-electric shock punishment. The variability of response durations increased with response suppression and decreased with response recovery. Distributions of response durations indicated that their variability is a sensitive dependent variable for assessing the effects of punishment.Keywords
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