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. 1969 Nov;12(6):1063–1079. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1969.12-1063

Schedules using noxious stimuli. IV: An interlocking shock-postponement schedule in the squirrel monkey1

R T Kelleher, W H Morse
PMCID: PMC1338719  PMID: 16811412

Abstract

Responding was studied under various schedules of electric shock postponement and presentatation in the squirrel monkey. Under an interlocking shock-postponement schedule, successive responses decreased the time by which a response postponed the next scheduled shock until a shock immediately followed the nth response. Some parameters of this schedule, which can be formally related to fixed-interval schedules, engendered a pattern of positively accelerated responding between shocks. This pattern did not occur under comparable parameter values of an alternative fixed-ratio, avoidance schedule under which each response postponed shock by a fixed duration and every nth response produced shock. Subsequently, performances were studied under schedules of shock presentation. Responding was never maintained under fixed-ratio schedules of shock presentation, but was maintained with a pattern of positive acceleration under an alternative fixed-ratio, fixed-interval schedule and under a fixed-interval schedule.

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