Renewal of operant performance formerly eliminated by omission or noncontingency training upon return to the acquisition context |
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Authors: | Sadahiko Nakajima Kouji Urushihara Takahisa Masaki |
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Affiliation: | Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-8501, Japan |
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Abstract: | Renewal of operant performance formerly eliminated by omission or noncontingency training was explored in two experiments with rats. When pressing a lever was trained with food reinforcement in one context (A) and then eliminated in a second context (B), responding was renewed by returning the rats to the original context (A). This ABA renewal effect was demonstrated in Experiment 1 when the elimination training was an omission procedure (delivery of food for withholding responding) and in Experiment 2 when it was a noncontingency procedure (delivery of food irrespective of responding). Because omission training (differential reinforcement of other behavior) and noncontingency training have been used in applied settings as effective procedures to reduce undesired human behaviors, the clinical implications of our findings for the relapse of undesirable behavior were discussed. |
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Keywords: | Renewal Omission training Differential reinforcement of other behavior Noncontingency Context Rats |
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