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Interactions Between Reinforced Responses and Collateral Responses

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The influence of collateral licking from a freely available water bottle upon lever pressing reinforced with food pellets was investigated in rats. Lever pressing was maintained on a fixed-ratio schedule and the quality of the content of the bottle was manipulated. Lever pressing and licking were physically compatible responses. The overall lever pressing rate was inversely related to the mean licking duration, and the duration of single pauses in lever pressing after reinforcement was directly related to the duration of licking bursts. Behaviors other than licking interacted with lever pressing, and these behaviors were also recorded. The results show that the rate and patterning of reinforced behavior may depend upon the rate and patterning of collateral behavior.

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Portions of the data were presented at the third Scandinavian Meeting on Physiological Psychology, Copenhagen, May, 1973. Comments on the manuscript by Drs. W. W. Henton and J. P. Huston are gratefully acknowledged. Preparation of the manuscript was supported by a scholar stipend from the University of Copenhagen.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03394425.

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Iversen, I.H. Interactions Between Reinforced Responses and Collateral Responses. Psychol Rec 26, 399–413 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394403

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