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The effects of instructions on the sensitivity of negatively reinforced human behavior to extinction
Author(s) :
Alessandri, Jerome [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Cançado, Carlos R.X. [Auteur]
Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] [UnB]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Cançado, Carlos R.X. [Auteur]
Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] [UnB]
Journal title :
Behavioural Processes
Abbreviated title :
Behavioural Processes
Volume number :
56
Pages :
50-53
Publisher :
Elsevier BV
Publication date :
2017-03
ISSN :
0376-6357
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences cognitives
English abstract : [en]
The effects of instructions on the sensitivity of negatively reinforced (escape) behavior to extinction were studied. Initially, responding produced timeouts from pressing a force cell on a variable-ratio (VR) schedule, ...
Show more >The effects of instructions on the sensitivity of negatively reinforced (escape) behavior to extinction were studied. Initially, responding produced timeouts from pressing a force cell on a variable-ratio (VR) schedule, which was then discontinued (extinction). Based on extinction data, participants were distributed into two groups. Participants in the Extinction Group (for which response rates were low in extinction) were instructed that the experimenter expected them to continue responding in extinction after a second exposure to the VR schedule. Participants in the Persistence group (for which response rates were high in extinction) were instructed that the experimenter expected them to stop responding in extinction. Relative to the condition in which instructions were absent, extinction-response rates increased and decreased, respectively, for participants in the Persistence and Extinction groups. These results replicate and extend to negatively reinforced responding previous findings that showed behavioral control by instructions formulated as explicit experimenter demands or expectations.Show less >
Show more >The effects of instructions on the sensitivity of negatively reinforced (escape) behavior to extinction were studied. Initially, responding produced timeouts from pressing a force cell on a variable-ratio (VR) schedule, which was then discontinued (extinction). Based on extinction data, participants were distributed into two groups. Participants in the Extinction Group (for which response rates were low in extinction) were instructed that the experimenter expected them to continue responding in extinction after a second exposure to the VR schedule. Participants in the Persistence group (for which response rates were high in extinction) were instructed that the experimenter expected them to stop responding in extinction. Relative to the condition in which instructions were absent, extinction-response rates increased and decreased, respectively, for participants in the Persistence and Extinction groups. These results replicate and extend to negatively reinforced responding previous findings that showed behavioral control by instructions formulated as explicit experimenter demands or expectations.Show less >
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Anglais
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Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille
Submission date :
2020-03-27T12:30:30Z
2020-03-31T07:44:31Z
2020-03-31T07:46:30Z
2020-04-01T13:46:48Z
2020-03-31T07:44:31Z
2020-03-31T07:46:30Z
2020-04-01T13:46:48Z
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