Effects of Signalling Reinforcement Which Maintains Variable Ratio Performance of Rats and Pigeons

RC Morris; PE Wookey; RM Kirby

doi:10.2466/pr0.1979.44.3.843

Effects of Signalling Reinforcement Which Maintains Variable Ratio Performance of Rats and Pigeons

RC Morris, PE Wookey, RM Kirby

School of Psychology

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Abstract

The non-instrumental effects on baseline response rates of response-contingent stimuli (CSs) that signalled all reinforcement were investigated. Rats showed reliable suppression during auditory CSs. Pigeons exhibited reliable suppression with visual CSs but not with auditory CSs. This procedure affords' a method of investigating non-instrumental aspects of behaviour which is free from problems inherent in the appetitive conditioned-suppression technique.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	843-852
Number of pages	0
Journal	Psychological Reports
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.44.3.843
Publication status	Published - Jun 1979

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