Behavioral momentum and resistance to extinction across repeated extinction tests.
behavioral momentum
discrimination
extinction
key pecking
operant behavior
pigeons
Journal
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
ISSN: 1938-3711
Titre abrégé: J Exp Anal Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0203727
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2019
11 2019
Historique:
received:
20
12
2018
accepted:
18
10
2019
pubmed:
12
11
2019
medline:
15
12
2020
entrez:
12
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The present experiments assessed whether resistance to extinction of pigeons' key pecking decreased across repeated extinction tests. An additional impetus for this research was to determine how the quantitative framework provided by behavioral momentum theory might be used to describe any such changes across tests. Pigeons pecked keys in two-component multiple schedules (one component associated with a higher reinforcer rate and the other with a lower rate) in which baseline and extinction conditions alternated. In Experiment 1, baseline and extinction conditions alternated every session, and, in Experiment 2, these conditions lasted for 10 and 7 sessions, respectively. Resistance to extinction decreased across successive extinction conditions in both experiments. Fits of the behavioral-momentum based model of extinction to the data returned uncertain results in Experiment 1 but implicated both generalization decrement and response-reinforcer contingency termination as the possible mechanisms responsible for behavior change in Experiment 2. Thus, these data suggest that experimental manipulations that affect discrimination of changes in reinforcement contingencies may influence resistance to extinction by modulating the disruptive impacts of removing reinforcers from the experimental context and of suspending response-reinforcer contingencies.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
290-309Subventions
Organisme : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
ID : R01HD064576
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2019 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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