Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

In view of the subject's reinforcement history during avoidance training in the traditional vicious circle paradigm, the author maintained that the stimulus complex changes little during punished extinction. It was therefore reasoned that vicious circle running during punished extinction might be precluded by the presence of a feedback stimulus (FS) that had been encountered during training only on avoidance trials. To test this hypothesis, the presence of an FS and CS were manipulated in both training and extinction to produce a 3 x 3 factorial design. An analysis of running speed revealed that all groups ran significantly slower on initial extinction trials than on terminal acquisition trials, an outcome inconsistent with the literature. In addition, training condition was found to affect rate of extinction and rate of acquisition, although not significantly. These trends suggest that the effects of punished extinction may be attenuated through the manipulation of discriminative cues.

Extent

55 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.

Identifier

FADT13696

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