Anticipation of reward omission as a cue for choice behavior |
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Authors: | John M. Kruse J. Bruce Overmier |
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Affiliation: | University of Minnesota USA |
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Abstract: | A within-subject partial reinforcement extinction effect was obtained in a conditional discriminative choice task. In choice acquisition, one group had learned a task in which one choice alternative was continuously reinforced (CRF) and the other alternative was partially reinforced (PRF). Most errors in the acquisition phase were the choosing of the CRF lever when the conditional stimulus signaled the PRF lever; in extinction this pattern of choice errors reversed. In extinction, most errors were choosing of the PRF lever when the conditional stimulus signaled the CRF lever. The predictions of frustration theory and sequential theory were compared with the choice data. The results were interpreted as consistent with the anticipatory frustration construct within an associative mediational theory. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to J. Bruce Overmier Department of Psychology Elliott Hall 75 East River Road University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455. |
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