CONDITIONED SUPPRESSION IN GOLDFISH AS A FUNCTION OF SHOCK-REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE.
The conditioned suppression technique (Estes and Skinner, 1941) was employed to study the effects of partial-shock reinforcement in the goldfish. Lever-pressing behavior of hungry goldfish was suppressed in the presence of a flashing light that had been previously paired with electric shocks. Fish that acquired the suppression under 50% and 100% shock-reinforcement, respectively, were subjected to repeated presentations of the flashing light alone. This procedure revealed a more rapid extinction of the suppressed behavior in the 50% than in the 100% shocked group. The finding was compared with those from other experiments and possible reasons for the differences were examined.
D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004597:Electroshock; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005399:Fishes; D006054:Goldfish; D008027:Light; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012106:Research
CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROSHOCK; EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; EXTINCTION (PSYCHOLOGY); FISHES; LIGHT; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY)