A Direct Test of Sheffield's Notion of "Stimulus Aftereffects of Eating" in Explaining the Partial Reinforcement Effect
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Authors
Woodward, Paul Douglas
Issue Date
1965
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Thesis
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en_US
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2 direct tests of Sheffield's notion of
"aftereffects of reinforcement" were to involve
discriminating the stimulus consequences of
eating from not eating, and stopping and
starting from not stopping. Ss' task was to
associate one member of the pair of aftereffects
with one turning response and the other member
of the aftereffect pair with the other turning
response. Overall measures of performance
showed no increase in the percentage of correct
responses to a level greater than chance, but
did indicate decreased running times. The
results of similar studies, and the performance
of individual Ss indicated that Ss of both
groups were in the preliminary stages of a
typical discrimination-learning situation,
and that Ss might learn the discrimination,
given additional trials.
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v, 24 p.
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