Generality of persistence: The role of stimulus and response factors in persistence to punishment |
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| Authors: | RK Banks |
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| Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Previous research has shown that intermittent punishment of a response increases its persistence to continuous punishment and that intermittent punishment training in one situation produces persistence to continuous punishment in other situations. Experiment 1 showed that as long as the instrumental response and punishing stimulus were held constant from intermittent to continuous punishment marked differences between these situations had no decremental effect on persistence. Experiment 2 showed that intermittent punishment training of one response resulted in substantial persistence to continuous punishment of a different and apparently incompatible response and that such response change had no more than a marginal effect on persistence. The results were seen as requiring some revision to the traditional conditioning-model interpretation of persistence to punishment. |
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| Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to the author Department of Psychology University of Waterloo |
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