Training and Maintenance of Keypecking in the Pigeon by Negative Reinforcement
SciencePublished 25 August 1967
Howard Rachlin, Philip N. Hineline
Citations39
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SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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Pigeons were trained to peck a key to escape a pulsing shock of linearly increasing intensity, and the intensity at which most pecking occurred varied from 2.2 to 5.0 milliamperes.
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Pigeons were trained to peck a key to escape a pulsing shock of linearly increasing intensity. As the rate of increase was varied from 0.0374 milliamperes per minute to 37.4 milliamperes per minute, the intensity at which most pecking occurred varied from 2.2 to 5.0 milliamperes.
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