SOME EFFECTS OF PUNISHMENT UPON UNPUNISHED RESPONDING<sup>1</sup>
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TL;DR
Animals permitted free access to a running wheel and drinking tube increased the amount of running when drinking was punished with electric shock, and questions an interpretation of the increase in unpunished alternative responding based upon its avoidance properties.
Abstract
Animals permitted free access to a running wheel and drinking tube increased the amount of running when drinking was punished with electric shock. Additional experiments demonstrated that the simple presence or absence of a drinking tube (or running wheel) was a sufficient condition to observe a decrease or an increase in the alternative response. A quantitative analysis of these interactions observed between the incompatible running and drinking responses suggested that each response occupied a constant proportion of the time available for it. These results question an interpretation of the increase in unpunished alternative responding based upon its avoidance properties.