A note on a temporal gradient of reinforcement.
- 1 August 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 25 (2), 221-227
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0057064
Abstract
Rats were placed in a stabilimeter and shocked repeatedly at 12 sec. intervals. They were then tested with weaker shocks at shorter and longer intervals and the magnitude of their jumps recorded. Results indicated that the conditioned response to the 12 sec. interval (over and above the unconditioned response to shock at any time) spread to other temporal intervals, its magnitude decreasing with distance in time from the 12 sec. point.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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