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Examining The Effects Of Reinforcement Context On Relapse Of Observing, Eric A. Thrailkill
Examining The Effects Of Reinforcement Context On Relapse Of Observing, Eric A. Thrailkill
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Attentional biases occur with various psychological disorders, including drug addiction and anxiety. Conditioned reinforcement likely plays a role in maintaining attentional biases to stimuli associated with reinforcement for unwanted behavior. The observing-response procedure is considered a model of attending as reflected by responding maintained by conditioned reinforcement. Effects of primary reinforcement on the persistence of observing have been studied in the framework of behavioral momentum theory. Studies have shown observing-responses to be more resistant to
change in contexts arranging relatively higher rates of primary reinforcement. Recently, behavioral momentum theory has been extended to describe the effects of primary reinforcement context …