Facilitation of extinction by a stimulus associated with long nonshock confinement periods.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 62 (1), 26-30
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023497
Abstract
Rats were trained to avoid shock in a jump-out box. In several groups in Experiment 1, a flashing light was presented during confinement in the non-shock box (the intertrial interval); during extinction, the light was presented for the first time in the shock box. This light, provided it had also been paired with long non-shock confinement, facilitated extinction, independently of generalization decrement. In Experiment 2, stimulus control of extinction responding was increased over that in Experiment 1 by use of a discrimination procedure during acquisition[long dash]pairing the light with long nonshock periods and omitting the light during short nonshock periods.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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