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Acquisition And Extinction Of An Avoidance Response By Mildly Retarded Girls, Enrique E. Corte
Acquisition And Extinction Of An Avoidance Response By Mildly Retarded Girls, Enrique E. Corte
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This study investigated the effects of some of the variables operating on the acquisition and extinction of avoidance behavior by mildly retarded adolescent girls. The subjects observed were 20 patients of Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. All the subjects were 15 years of age or older and none of them had reached her twenty-first birthday at the time that the experiment was run. They had adaptive behavior levels of I, II or III.
The subjects were randomly assigned to one of two replications and to one of two experimental conditions (extinction and control). All the subjects were brought into …