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- Title
Contribución de contingencias entre estímulos sobre la efectividad del comportamiento en la estructuración de campos suplementarios.
- Authors
Velázquez González, Gabriel; Javier Flores Aguirre, Carlos
- Abstract
The present study evaluated the effect of pre-exposure to stimulus contingency on the structuring of supplementary fields. In the first phase, two groups of rats were exposed to different contingency arrangements. For one group, a sound was followed consistently by a drop of water (Group Ey-Ex), whereas in the other group the sound and the water were unconsistently presented (Group Ey/Ex). In the second phase these two groups and a third group (Control Group) were exposed to a temporally-defined schedule, the sub-cycle tD was signaled with a sound. The occurrence of at least one response during tD resulted in the delivery of a drop of water. A high frequency of responses during sub-cycle tD was observed in all subjects. However, the subjects of Group Ey-Ex showed a lower number of responses during sub-cycle tΔ compared with the rest of the subjects. Results are discussed attending to the conceptual and methodological criteria that have been proposed to identify the psychological functions as Ribes and López (1985) defined
- Subjects
INTERBEHAVIORAL psychology; LABORATORY rats; CONTROL groups; CONTINGENCY (Philosophy); RIBES
- Publication
Acta Comportamentalia, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 4, p425
- ISSN
0188-8145
- Publication type
Article