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. 1968 Jul;11(4):415–423. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1968.11-415

Some effects of discriminative training with equated frequency of reinforcement1

Matthew Yarczower, Lewis R Gollub, James F Dickson
PMCID: PMC1338503  PMID: 5672250

Abstract

Pigeons were exposed to a multiple schedule which provided equally frequent reinforcement in the presence of two stimuli but which produced markedly different rates of key-pecking. Generalization gradients were displaced away from the stimulus associated with the lower rate of key-pecking. Another group of pigeons had similar training, except that a low rate of key-pecking was established in a stimulus with a much higher frequency of food reinforcement. In this case, the generalization gradients were not affected by the training on the schedule producing a low response rate.

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