HERMAN R L, AZRIN N H
J Exp Anal Behav. 1964 Mar;7(2):185-8. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1964.7-185.
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.
人类受试者的操作性反应根据可变间隔的正强化时间表进行条件设定。每次反应都会伴随一阵短暂的噪音作为惩罚。与只有单一受罚反应可用时相比,当同时存在另一种未受罚反应时,噪音对受罚反应的抑制作用更强。这一发现扩展了先前一项研究的普遍性,该研究使用了一段消退期而非短暂噪音作为惩罚刺激。