Observing responses in rats: Support for the secondary reinforcement hypothesis |
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Authors: | G C Preston |
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a Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, U.K. |
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Abstract: | Rats' lever presses on a retractable lever earned brief presentations of discriminative stimuli signalling periods in which responding on an alternative lever was either non-reinforced (extinction) or reinforced on a random ratio schedule. The predictions of two theoretical accounts of this behaviour were tested by studying the effects of omitting either the stimulus signalling the reinforced or that signalling the non-reinforced schedule component. Under these conditions rats' behaviour is determined by the conditioned, affective properties of the stimuli rather than by their purely informational properties. |
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