The Effects of Reinforcer Distribution During Response Elimination on Resurgence of an Instrumental Response

Resurgence is the relapse of an extinguished instrumental behavior that can occur when an alternative behavior that was introduced to replace it is itself extinguished. In a typical resurgence experiment, rats are trained to make a response (R1) for food reinforcers. In a second phase, responses on...

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Main Author: Schepers, Scott Timothy
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks @ UVM 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/280
http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1279&context=graddis