Effects of Repetition Frequency on Operant Strength and Resurgence of Non-Criterial Features of Operants

Mechner, Francis; Jones, Laurilyn D.

doi:10.5514/rmac.v41.i2.63729

RMAC

2015

DOI: 10.5514/rmac.v41.i2.63729

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Effects of Repetition Frequency on Operant Strength and Resurgence of Non-Criterial Features of Operants

Francis Mechner¹,

Laurilyn D. Jones²

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“…The first‐trained and then the second‐trained of these caregiving responses resurged, in that order, when an alternative response to them was extinguished. In a related experiment with rats, Reed and Morgan (2006, see also Mechner & Jones, ) trained an experimenter‐defined three‐response sequence (e.g., respond on left lever, respond on right lever, respond on right lever) to criterion. This procedure repeated twice more, with each response sequence performed at criterion before moving to the next sequence, until each rat learned three unique three‐response sequences.…”

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In resurgence, conventionally a target response is trained and then extinguished while some alternative response is reinforced. In the most common procedure, when the latter is extinguished, the former resurges. The present experiments examined resurgence after two responses were trained sequentially and subsequently extinguished. In Experiments 1 and 2, keypecking to one key was trained and then extinguished as keypecking to a different key was trained then later extinguished. In both experiments, regardless of the spatial location of the different keys, the last‐trained response resurged before the first‐trained one. The results were replicated in Experiment 3 where reinforcement rate of the first‐trained response was four times that of the second‐trained response. The results in conjunction with earlier experiments suggest that resurgence occurs hierarchically, although whether more or less recently trained target responses resurge first or later may depend on both current and historical variables. The results also raise questions about the interpretation of responding on a control key that sometimes is included in resurgence experiments to isolate resurgence from extinction‐induced responding.

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“…Resurgence, the recurrence of previously reinforced but not currently present behavior (Mechner & Jones, ), typically is studied using a three‐phase procedure. During the Training (T) phase, a response (or responses) is/are reinforced.…”

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In two experiments, pigeons were exposed to a three-phase resurgence procedure (train Response A; extinguish Response A and train Response B; extinguish Response B). In the first experiment, the stimuli associated with phases were different, resulting in a resurgence procedure combined with an ABC renewal procedure. Presenting the novel stimulus, C, during extinction of both responses in the third phase resulted in minimal resurgence. Subsequently, substituting the original training Stimulus A for Stimulus C resulted in resurgence with all pigeons. In the second experiment, resurgence with the same stimuli present in all three phases of the resurgence procedure (AAA) was compared concurrently with a resurgence procedure in which the ABC renewal procedure used in Experiment 1 was superimposed. Substantially more resurgence occurred with the AAA procedure compared to the ABC procedure. Although ABC renewal in combination with the resurgence procedure generated some resurgence, such recurrent responding was attenuated relative to that observed when the stimulus conditions were constant across phases. Combined with earlier research showing the enhancing effects of combining resurgence and ABA renewal procedures, the present results elaborate on how stimuli correlated with certain behavioral histories affect the course of operant resurgence.

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Effects of Repetition Frequency on Operant Strength and Resurgence of Non-Criterial Features of Operants

Abstract: How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

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