Abstract：
:Two experiments were conducted in which pigeons were trained to perform a complex operant consisting of a peck to one key followed by a peck to another key. In the first experment this performance was reinforced on a variable-interval schedule and the birds were then subjected to a multiple schedule in which the variable-interval was alternated with extinction. The first two pigeons trained showed some deterioration of the cohesiveness of the response sequence. After measures were taken to correct this the pigeon gave evidence of behavioral contrast in a condition where sessions with discrimination were alternated rapidly with sessions with no discrimination (variable-interval only). Another two birds were trained on variable-interval followed by discrimination. One of these birds showed evidence of contrast but the results of the other were not clear. Experiment II was a three phase experiment in which animals were first trained to make the complex response. In the second phase they were extinguished by providing noncontingent reinforcement in each of two components. In the third phase reinforcement was removed from one component, providing for a stimulus-reinforcer contingency. In the third phase the complex response reappeared temporarily. The results of these two studies indicate that a complex response may show behavioral contrast and that it may be enhanced by stimulus-reinforcer contingencies if it has already been trained.
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Behav Processesjournal_title
Behavioural processesauthors
Kendall SBdoi
10.1016/0376-6357(87)90072-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-06-01 00:00:00pages
247-66issue
3eissn
0376-6357issn
1872-8308pii
0376-6357(87)90072-6journal_volume
14pub_type
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