AVERSIVE CS CONTROL OF INSTRUMENTAL AVOIDANCE AS A FUNCTION OF SELECTED PARAMETERS AND METHOD OF PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING

被引:4
作者
BRACKBILL, RM
OVERMIER, JB
机构
[1] UNIV MINNESOTA,DEPT PSYCHOL,MINNEAPOLIS,MN 55455
[2] UNIV ARKANSAS,MONTICELLO,AR
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0023-9690(79)90032-8
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Effects of aversive CSs upon dogs' instrumental avoidance responding were assessed as a function of the Pavlovian conditioning parameters using off-baseline (Experiment 1) and on-baseline (Experiment 2) conditioning procedures. In each experiment, three UCS intensitites (2, 6, and 10 mA) were crossed factorially with two CS-UCS intervals (10 and 90 sec) yielding six groups. After 4 days of conditioning, the CS-produced effects on avoidance were determined primarily by an interaction between Pavlovian procedure (off- versus on-baseline) and UCS intensity. With off-baseline conditioning, CS-produced facilitation of avoidance was an increasing function of the UCS intensity. However, with on-baseline conditioning, only the CS paired with weak UCS facilitated avoidance, and the CS paired with the strong UCS suppressed responding. This reversing parametric function poses problems for two-process motivational theories of avoidance. © 1979.
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页码:229 / 244
页数:16
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