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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Accounting for Behavioral Contrast: Recent Interpretations

Snyder, Ronald L. 01 May 1983 (has links)
Behavioral contrast has been interpreted as a function of either (1) the reduction of frequency of reinforcement in one component of a multiple schedule or (2) the suppression of responses in one component regardless of reinforcement frequency. These explanations are discussed in terms of their adequacy in accounting for several recent experimental results. Two alternative explanations are considered. First, contrast is interpreted as a function of the relative summation of excitatory and inhibitory effects of stimuli. Second, contrast is discussed as a possible function of a switch from a response-reinforcer contingency to a stimulus-reinforcer contingency as seen in auto-pecking. Both avenues are considered promising in terms of accounting for behavioral contrast.

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