Resistance to extinction after varying amounts of discriminative or nondiscriminative instrumental training.

D’Amato, M. R.; Schiff, Donald; Jagoda, H.

doi:10.1037/h0041058

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“…The results of the present experiment indicate that the extinction curve to the positive cue following errorless training resembles that obtained following continuous reinforcement rather than intermittent reinforcement. The present results are therefore in contrast to the results obtained in the usual discrimination experiment involving nonrewarded responses (Jenkins, 1961;D'Amato, Schiff, & Jagoda, 1962).…”

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Discrimination reversal following learning without “errors”

Marsh

Johnson

1968

Psychon Sci

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Pigeons were trained on a discrimination using the "errorless" procedure devised by Terrace and then given a discrimination reversal. Their extinction to the previously positive cue during reversal was similar to a control group given continuous reinforcement during original training. Most of the Ss in the errorless group, however, failed to learn the reversal because they did not respond to the previously Ilegative cue during five days of reversal training.

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Discrimination reversal following learning without “errors”

Marsh

Johnson

1968

Psychon Sci

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“…One remaining problem is to account for the not infrequent failure to find an overlearning effect (D 'Amato & Jagoda, 1962;D'Amato, Schiff, & Jagoda, 1962;Hill, Spear, & Clayton, 1962). An examination of the overlearning literature revealed that studies failing to obtain the overlearning effect have used a reward of a very small size.…”

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Overlearning-extinction effect as an incentive phenomenon.

Theios¹,

Brelsford²

1964

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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3 groups of 12 rats each were trained and extinguished in a runway. Group 10-10 received 10 rewarded training trials. Group 60-60 received 60 rewarded training trials. Group 10-60 received 10 training trials and 60 rewards. An overlearning effect in extinction was found only when the groups differed in number of rewards. Group 10-10 was more resistant to extinction than Group 60-60, but Group 60-60 was more resistant than Group 10-60. The data suggest that the overlearning effect is a result of the operation of incentive motivation.

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“…Generally, it has been held that primary habit strength increases as a function of the number of times the response is paired with reinforcement, although nonmonotonicity has also been reported (Ison, 1962;North & Stimmel, 1960;Siegel & Foshee, 1953). There is some evidence that an increase in number of trials under an intermittent reinforcement schedule leads to greater resistance to extinction while fewer acquisition trials are superior under a continuous schedule (Bacon, 1962;D'Amato, Schiff, & Jagoda, 1962).…”

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