Contiguous Approach Conditioning: A Model for Positive Reinforcement

Autor:	Maury M. Haraway, Philip W. Wirth, Ernest G. Maples
Rok vydání:	1974
Předmět:	05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0503 education General Psychology
Zdroj:	Psychological Reports. 34:127-130
ISSN:	1558-691X 0033-2941
DOI:	10.2466/pr0.1974.34.1.127
Popis:	The experiment was designed to demonstrate that a stimulus presented contiguously with the onset of a positive reinforcer, food, may serve as a conditioned elicitor of approach behavior. 20 naive male rats were assigned to two groups. Experimental Ss received their entire daily food supply paired with a flashing light. For control Ss, the light was presented uncorrelated with feeding. Approach behavior was assessed in a shuttle box. When the light was presented on the side of the hurdle opposite S, experimental Ss crossed the hurdle and approached the light significantly faster than did control Ss. The results are taken as physical representation of the conditioned approach responses postulated in Denny's interpretation of positive reinforcement effects.
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