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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2009 Jan;35(1):74–91. doi: 10.1037/a0012926

Table 3.

Average DMTS accuracy and VI response rates during baseline and disruption in Experiment 3, average proportions of baseline in each of four resistance tests, and results of two-tailed t-tests (3df) of differences in proportion of baseline between SO and DO components. The magnitude of the DOE – the difference between accuracy levels in DO and SO components – is shown in a separate column. Response rate data are given only for conditions in which disruptors were effective (prefeeding and extinction). Also shown are rates of pecking at samples S1 and S2 in the SO and DO components.

DMTS accuracy -- log d VI responses/min Sample pecking -- resp/min
Prefeeding
SO DO DOE SO DO SO S1 SO S2 DO S1 DO S2
Baseline 1.386 1.804 0.418 109.4 120.3 60.0 69.2 63.0 46.6
Disrupt 1.004 1.294 0.289 61.4 74.9 59.4 61.8 63.9 44.3
Prop. BL 0.726 0.711 0.589 0.618
t-test results t = 0.27, p = .800 t = 0.80, p = .480
Sample disruption
SO DO SO S1 SO S2 DO S1 DO S2
Baseline 1.381 1.874 0.492 56.6 63.7 59.4 40.0
Disrupt 1.143 1.497 0.354 51.5 60.7 52.8 39.0
Prop. BL 0.880 0.814
t-test results t = 0.61, p = .584
Retention interval disruption
SO DO SO S1 SO S2 DO S1 DO S2
Baseline 1.381 1.874 0.492 53.4 62.5 56.4 37.8
Disrupt 1.089 1.412 0.323 53.2 60.4 57.7 37.9
Prop. BL 0.790 0.759
t-test results t = 0.41, p = .708
Extinction
SO DO SO DO SO S1 SO S2 DO S1 DO S2
Baseline 1.316 1.874 0.557 110.5 125.0 54.3 58.2 56.9 36.6
Disrupt 0.888 1.053 0.165 81.4 99.3 60.8 63.5 63.2 42.0
Prop. BL 0.667 0.572 0.771 0.831
t-test results t = 0.85, p = .458 t = 1.41, p = .253