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. 1964 Mar;7(2):185–188. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1964.7-185

Punishment by noise in an alternative response situation1

R L Herman, N H Azrin
PMCID: PMC1404315  PMID: 14130101

Abstract

Operant responses of human subjects were conditioned according to a variable-interval schedule of positive reinforcement. A brief noise was delivered as punishment for each of the responses. The noise suppressed the punished responses more when an alternative unpunished response was concurrently available than when only a single punished response was available. This finding extends the generality of a previous study that had used a period of extinction rather than the brief noise as the punishing stimulus.

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