Abstract
This experiment examined the acquisition and transfer of inhibitory stimulus control in serial feature-negative (A+, X→A−) discriminations in a conditioned suppression situation. A variety of visual and auditory stimuli were used as A and X in separate groups of rat subjects. The choice of the stimuli used as X and A substantially affected the rate of acquisition of those discriminations. But in no case did X inhibit conditioned responding to another excitor that was separately paired with the unconditioned stimulus. These results replicated, over a wide range of acquisition rates and performance levels, Holland and Lamarre’s (Learning and Motivation, 1984) observation that the inhibitory stimulus control established to the feature in serial feature-negative discrimination procedures was highly specific to the excitor with which it had been trained.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 71-74 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1985 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Catalysis
- Chemistry(all)