Doughty Adam H, Cash Jeffrey D, Finch Elizabeth A, Holloway Chrisey, Wallington Laura K
College of Charleston, Department of Psychology, 57 Coming Street, Charleston, SC 29424, USA.
Behav Processes. 2010 Mar;83(3):340-3. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.12.001. Epub 2009 Dec 5.
This experiment assessed the effects of training history on resurgence in three college students. Four-choice arbitrary-matching-to-sample trials occurred in two components of a multiple schedule. An A1 or A2 sample stimulus and four (B) comparison stimuli occurred on AB trials, and a C1 or C2 sample stimulus and four (D) comparison stimuli occurred on CD trials. By the end of training, accuracy and latency measures were comparable across separate discriminations, selecting B2 in the presence of A2 and selecting D2 in the presence of C2, despite a lengthier training correlated with the former discrimination. Next, in the presence of A2 and C2, respectively, responses to B2 and D2 were extinguished and responses to B3 and D3 were reinforced. These responses to B3 and D3 then were extinguished in a final condition. In this final condition, resurgence to B2 occurred for each participant, whereas resurgence to D2 occurred for only one participant. Thus, there was greater resurgence of the discrimination with the lengthier training history, despite the discriminations being similar in terms of accuracy and latency before extinction. This result, therefore, can be classified as a latent, or remote, behavioral history effect.
本实验评估了训练历史对三名大学生反应重现的影响。在多重日程安排的两个部分进行了四选一的任意匹配样本试验。在AB试验中出现A1或A2样本刺激以及四个（B）比较刺激，在CD试验中出现C1或C2样本刺激以及四个（D）比较刺激。到训练结束时，在单独的辨别任务中，准确性和潜伏期指标具有可比性，即在A2出现时选择B2，在C2出现时选择D2，尽管与前一种辨别相关的训练时间更长。接下来，分别在A2和C2出现时，对B2和D2的反应被消退，对B3和D3的反应得到强化。然后在最后一个条件下，对B3和D3的这些反应被消退。在这个最后条件下，每个参与者都出现了对B2的反应重现，而只有一名参与者出现了对D2的反应重现。因此，尽管在消退前辨别在准确性和潜伏期方面相似，但训练历史较长的辨别出现了更大程度的反应重现。因此，这一结果可归类为一种潜在的，或远期的，行为历史效应。
