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Response Feedback and Response Duration Differentiation in the Albino Rat Cover

Response Feedback and Response Duration Differentiation in the Albino Rat

Open Access
|Jan 1987

Abstract

Twelve male albino rats were reinforced for lever press durations of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 seconds. Half of the subjects (F) received an auditory feedback after non-reinforced responses. The 6 other (Controls, C) worked without feedback. F rats emitted on the average higher mean response durations and earned more reinforcements than C subjects. The standard deviation and coefficient of variation of their response duration distributions were significantly lower than those of group C. These results tend to show that feedback stimulus following non-reinforced responses improve the accuracy of performance in the response duration differentiation schedule.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.759 | Journal eISSN: 0033-2879
Language: English
Published on: Jan 1, 1987
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 1987 Helga Lejeune, Oriella Di Stefano, Pierre Lefevre, Maurice Deliege, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.