Varying temporal placement during CS of an added stimulus correlated with non-delivery of UCS
Autor: | Arnold M. Washton, Ronald M. Kadden, William N. Schoenfeld, John C. McMillan |
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Rok vydání: | 1975 |
Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Male medicine.medical_specialty Reinforcement Schedule Time Factors Social Psychology Cardiac rate Conditioning Classical Neutral stimulus Stimulus (physiology) Audiology Developmental psychology Discrimination Learning Intrusion Heart Rate medicine Reaction Time Animals Applied Psychology Communication Macaca mulatta Philosophy Anthropology Conditional response Measures of conditioned emotional response Psychology Stimulus control |
Zdroj: | The Pavlovian journal of biological science. 10(2) |
ISSN: | 0093-2213 |
Popis: | This experiment extends Pavlov’s method of contrasts for training a stimulus discrimination to the case of the cardiac conditional response in the rhesus monkey. It explores the parameter of temporal placement of an additional stimulus (“CS2”) within a 10-sec CS (or “CS1”), with the appearance of the former stimulus on any trial signalling the absence of UCS (electric shock) on that trial. This experimental paradigm is a parallel to that of the “intruded stimulus” studies in operant conditioning. In both cases, several ways of describing the function of the added stimulus are possible, but all seem reducible to the same operational terms. Data were taken in the present study with respect to the form and latency of the cardiac rate changes produced by intrusion of CS2 (light), across a range of placements varying from simultaneity with CS1 (a different light) onset to two sec before UCS would have been delivered. The control of CS2 over the cardiac rate CR was occasionally exhibited with a latency as short as three beats after stimulus onset. The order of CS2 temporal placements to which a subject was exposed was a factor in determining the form of the conditioned cardiac rate response to CS1. |
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