TRANSFER OF EXPERIMENTER-IMPOSED SLOW-RESPONSE PATTERNS TO EXTINCTION OF A CONTINUOUSLY REWARDED RESPONSE

Required 8 naive male Wistar rats in 1 5-ft runway to run slowly in either the 1st 2 or last 2 ft. to earn reward; concurrently, Ss received reward on every trial (CRF) for running in a discriminably different runway of identical proportions. 3 Ss in each group adjusted well to the E-imposed slow-response requirement. When extinction training was given in the CRF runway alone, there was evidence of transference of the slow-response pattern. It is difficult to attribute these transferred response patterns to external stimulus control and mediational mechanisms are implicated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.