Reinforcement and Punishment of Behavior by the Same Consequent Event
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 40 (3), 1015-1021
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1977.40.3.1015
Abstract
In daily sessions, lever-pressing by each of two squirrel monkeys was maintained under two different conditions. During one condition responding that had been maintained initially under a 5-min. fixed-interval schedule of food presentation was suppressed when every 30th response produced an electric shock. In the presence of a different discriminative stimulus responding that initially postponed electric shock (avoidance) was ultimately maintained when responding instead produced shock under a 5-min. fixed-interval schedule. Thus responding was suppressed by shock presentation during one condition (punishment) and was maintained by the presentation of an identical shock during a second condition (reinforcement). Whether an environmental stimulus exerts reinforcing or punishing effects on behavior can depend on characteristics other than the nature of the event.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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