Conteúdo indexado
STIMULUS CONTROL OF AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR1
1964 · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; v. 7; n. 2; p. 129-133; Fonte: Wiley
Dados principais
- Ano de publicação
- 1964
- Dados editoriais
- Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; v. 7; n. 2; p. 129-133; Fonte: Wiley
- Palavras-chave
- JEAB; análise do comportamento
Autores
- Roger E. Ulrich
- William C. Holz
- Nathan H. Azrin
Resumo
The introduction of a warning signal preceding shocks greatly increased the effectiveness of avoidance responding. Periods of “warm‐up” at the beginning of the session were eliminated, and the number of shocks received by the subjects was greatly reduced. With response‐shock interval constant, response rate increased as the interval between the response and the onset of the warning signal was shortened. The response tended to occur shortly after the onset of the warning signal regardless of the duration of these “safe” periods. A greatly elevated response rate was maintained even when the duration of the safe period was reduced to 0.3 sec. Thus, the pre‐shock signal obtained nearly exclusive control of the responding and overrode the usual “temporal discrimination” of the response‐shock interval.