Effect of positively and negatively correlated shock and reward on acquisition in the runway
Psychonomic SciencePublished 1 July 1972Open access
John Scull, Donna Vechsler
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Abstract
Three groups of rats were given 50% reward in a straight runway, with two of the groups also having gradually increasing shock on 50% of the trials. One shock group was shocked on rewarded trials and the other on nonrewarded trials. Both shocked groups ran more slowly and retraced more than the partial reward group, and the group shocked on rewarded trials ran faster and retraced less than the group shocked on nonrewarded trials. These results were discussed in terms of counterconditioning.
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