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Self-punitive behavior: Nonreinforcement procedure of extinction
Two groups of rats were given escape training in an automated double runway. During a nonreinforcement procedure of extinction (no shock offset in the goal/startboxes), punishment was introduced to one group b...
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Test of aversiveness of a 39-kHz tone to hooded rats
Eight Long-Evans full-term male rats were used to test the aversiveness of a 39-kHz tone. The tone was generated by a RCM Enterprises, Inc ultrasonic motion detector which utilizes the tone to measure activity...
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The effects of social interaction upon persistence of self-punitive behavior
Four groups of rats were trained to escape shock in a straight runway prior to institution of punishment conditions in an attempt to assess the effect of the presence of another S upon the persistance of self-...
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A method for identifying individual subjects within a group of fish
To identify individuals within a group of fish, several dyes were tested for the distinctiveness of marking, duration of marking, toxicity, and effects upon individual and social behavior. Several of the dyes,...
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The effects of chlorpromazine on self-punitive behavior
After usual treatment conditions were instated to produce the self-punitive behavior phenomenon, different dose levels of chlorpromazine (or appropriate amounts of saline) were administered to different groups...
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Self-punitive locomotor behavior in the Mongolian gerbil
This study was primarily a test of the generality of a behavioral phenomenon across species. Several investigations have shown that rats when punished for an aversively motivated response will maintain that re...
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Self-punitive behavior: One way to stop it
After rats had demonstrated reliable self-punitive behavior the introduction of an 18-min interval between massed trials resulted in rapid extinction of the response. Another punished group which was not delay...
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Self-punitive behavior and periodic punishment
Periodic punishment (33%) was compared with continuous punishment (100%) for producing self-punitive behavior in a straight-runway shock-escape situation. Both punishment schedules resulted in self-punitive or...
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Instrumental aversive conditioning in newly hatched domestic chicks
The performance of forty chicks in a straight runway to heat reinforcement was measured under four drive conditions across 20 trials in a 2 by 2 by 20 factorial design. The two main treatment conditions were l...
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Punishment-induced facilitation: Comments and analysis
A theoretical and methodological analysis of recent research (e.g., Smith, Uisanin, & Campbell, 1966) was done in order to reconcile some divergent results. Varied effects of punishment of escape and avoidance...
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Resistance to extinction of an escape response as a function of the number of reinforcements
Support for the assumption that response strength is related to number of reinforcements in a negatively accelerated monotonic fashion has been obtained from instrumental appetitive and classical aversive cond...
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Fear responses of Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) to a model and a live Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
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Vicious circle behavior as a function of delay of punishment
Rats were given shock-escape training in a 4 ft runway, then divided into 3 groups of 10 Ss each. During extinction one group received 1 ft of shock immediately after leaving the start box, a second group was ...
