Suppression of operant vs consummatory behavior.
The magnitude and variability of conditioned suppression of bar pressing and dipper licking were compared. In two steady-state experiments, suppression of bar pressing was more profound and more stable from day to day. The two measures of suppression were uncorrelated as indexed by Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients computed for adjacent trials. Correlations within measures (internal consistency) were somewhat higher for the bar-press system except when a high proportion of rats completely suppressed on one of the correlated trials. In a transient state experiment in which possible adventitious punishment of both response systems was eliminated, suppression of bar pressing was again more profound and considerably slower to extinguish.
D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D003259:Consummatory Behavior; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D004597:Electroshock; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011678:Punishment; D051381:Rats; D013016:Sound