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Daily Quizzes With Review And Rededial Quizzes And Examination Performance, Mary Collamer Hubbard

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The Acquisition Of A Complex Concept In Pigeons, James W. Siddall

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Positive Conditioned Supperssion: A Replication And Extension, Julia C. Curtin

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An Analysis Of Polydipsia As Produced By A Multiple Schedule, Joseph J. Vaal

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Polydipsia and contrast effects are two behavioral phenomena produced by manipulations of the reinforcement schedules under which the organisms are behaving. The present study created a complex situation by subjecting rats to a multiple reinforcement schedule. This situation allowed simultaneous examination of both operant and induced drinking behavior. Furthermore, this situation allowed for an examination of possible schedule interactions with respect to the induced and operant drinking behaviors.

It was expected that the results of this study would show that behavioral contrast effects could be obtained in a polydipsic situation. Even though the expected results were not obtained, it is …

Stimulus Control And The Effects Of Stimulus Change On Aggression In Children, Marilyn S. Arnett

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Five children has the opportunity at programmed intervals to shock a rat during daily 10 min sessions. An aggression response was defined as producing rat shock and reinforcement was not made contingent on any response within the experimental chamber. Response increment occurred for all subjects upon introduction of a visual cue which signaled shock period onset. A discrimination between shock and no-shock periods developed for all subjects and response increment occurred for all subjects due to a change in the manipulanda. Two subjects who initially preferred shocking the rat, also produced visual feedback when available, although average shock rate was …

The Development Of Behavioral Contrast In Human Subjects, Joel Steven Ray

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Strength Of Conditioned Reinforcement In Chain Schedules: The Effect Of Altering Minimum Time To Reinforcement, Robert P. Ludlow

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The Effects Of Chlorpromazine On Escape And Avoidance Behavior, Susan E. Bohlmann Lapato

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The present study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of a two lever escape avoidance paradigm as a potential drug evaluation procedure. In this procedure responses on one lever postponed the onset of shock for a fixed period of time while responses on the other lever were effective only in terminating shock. This procedure effectively separates the escape and avoidance behaviors of a single organism and should provide a sensitive baseline upon which to measure the specific effects of drugs upon these two behaviors. The specific and differential effects of three dose levels of chlorpromazine upon escape and avoidance behaviors …

Avoidance And Escape Responses In A Free Operant Avoidance Procedure As A Function Of Avoidance-Shock Intervals, Kathleen M. Krumhus

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Rats were trained on an unsignalled shock procedure, using a two lever apparatus. Responses on one lever postponed the onset of electric shock for a specified time period, the Avoidance-Shock interval. A response on the second lever terminated shock and delayed the onset of the next shock eight seconds, the Escape-Shock interval. Shock was continuous until the subject depressed the second lever. Changes in response rate on both levers were recorded as a function of manipulations of the duration of the Avoidance-Shock interval.

If responses on both bars are summed, data obtained are comparable with findings obtained from the manipulation …

Conditioned Punishment Of Self-Injurious Behavior, George Hunt

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The Effects Of Token Reinforcement On School Attendance And Study Behavior In A Special School For Delinquent And Pre-Delinquent Juvenile Males, Michael L. Boyle

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The Effects Of Maternal Deprivation And Early Social Isolation On Emotionality And Discriminated Avoidance Learning In The Rat, Edward N. Schneider

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A Comparative Analysis Of The Language Of Mentally Retarded And Non-Retarded Children, Hartmut Günther

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Maintaining Responding During Stimulus Generalization Testing In Extinction, Michael F. Glenn

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Conditional Discrimination: Generalization Outside The Range Of Training Stimuli, Martha D. Itkin

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An Analysis Of Climatic Influences On Aggression, Alan M. Gonick

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The effects of exposure to various climatic conditions were analyzed to determine whether these conditions could produce aggression or facilitate shock-elicited aggression. Paired rats and single monkeys were used as subjects. The effects of independent and simultaneous changes in temperature and relative humidity were investigated in an attempt to produce aggression. Temperature, relative humidity, and length of exposure to climatic conditions were varied to determine if these conditions would facilitate shock-elicited aggression. The climatic conditions investigated were ineffective in reliably producing aggression between rats and also in facilitating shock-elicited aggression with rats and monkey subjects. Exposure to temperatures above 24.4°C …

The Effect Of Daily Quizzes On Hour Exam Performance, Katherine Janczarek

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A Comparison Of Choice And Forced Alcohol Consumption And Alcohol Dehydrogenase Activity, David Bertsch Gray

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Earlier studies using both mice and rats have revealed a significant, positive correlation between preference of alcohol concentration and activity of the liver enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase. In this study two groups of Sprague- Dawley rats, matched for sex, were presented alcohol by either a choice or forced condition for three twelve day periods in a choice-forced-choice or forced-choice-forced sequence. Data were recorded as the amount of alcohol - consumed under each consumption condition. After the rats were sacrificed, their livers were removed and assays were made for the alcohol dehydrogenase activity. While several correlations between consumption and alcohol dehydrogenase activity …

Effects Of X-Radiation On Saccharine Consumption As A Function Of Dosage And Interstimulus Interval, Michael Drillings

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Behavioral Contrast: A Comparison Of Responses Maintained By Qualitatively Different Reinforcers, Paul Whelan

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An Attempt To Manipulate The Results Of A Psychomotor Learning Task, Robert D. Cable

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The Effects Of Morphine On Shock-Induced Aggression In The Squirrel Monkey, Grace S. Emley

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Changes In Rates Of Food-Reinforced Bar-Pressing And Collateral Licking During A Signal Preceding Response-Independent Shock, Sander Stern

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Randomness As An Element Of Stimulus Complexity, Norman M. Kiracofe

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A Comparison Of Differential Response Rates With Children Under Two Schedules Of Reinforcement And Extinction Using Programmed Mathematics Instruction, David L. Sorenson

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The Effects Of Continuous Shock Punishment On Fr Reinforced Behavior, John Carter Moore

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Reinforcement Of Sitting Behavior In Retardates In An Institutional Setting, Robert James Bonner

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Response Contingent Shock And Its Effect Upon Self-Injurious Behavior, William N. Schlee

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An Exploration Of The "Fear Of Hawk" Hypothesis Using Stationary Silhouetted Stimuli With Naive Japanese Quail, John Stuart Clement

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Classical Conditioning Of Aggression: A Developmental Study, Bruce E. Gideon

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