Abstract:
:Sexual reinforcers are not part of a regulatory system involved in the maintenance of critical metabolic processes, they differ for males and females, they differ as a function of species and mating system, and they show ontogenetic and seasonal changes related to endocrine conditions. Exposure to a member of the opposite sex without copulation can be sufficient for sexual reinforcement. However, copulatory access is a stronger reinforcer, and copulatory opportunity can serve to enhance the reinforcing efficacy of stimulus features of a sexual partner. Conversely, under certain conditions, noncopulatory exposure serves to decrease reinforcer efficacy. Many common learning phenomena such as acquisition, extinction, discrimination learning, second-order conditioning, and latent inhibition have been demonstrated in sexual conditioning. These observations extend the generality of findings obtained with more conventional reinforcers, but the mechanisms of these effects and their gender and species specificity remain to be explored.
journal_name
J Exp Anal Behavjournal_title
Journal of the experimental analysis of behaviorauthors
Crawford LL,Holloway KS,Domjan Mdoi
10.1901/jeab.1993.60-55subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-07-01 00:00:00pages
55-66issue
1eissn
0022-5002issn
1938-3711journal_volume
60pub_type
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