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Rats trained to make an approach response with either nonreward or 150- or 175-V shock occurring on 2, 3, or 4 of 6 daily trials showed greater resistance to extinction than continuously reinforced-unpunished controls. Persistence during extinction was a function of both the type and the frequency of response-contingent event in acquisition. The significant interaction of these two factors was best interpreted as a result of the counterconditioning of the approach response (Amsel, 1972) to anticipatory conditions which varied in similarity to the frustrative nonreward of extinction.
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Linden, D.R. The effect of intensity and frequency of intermittent punishment in acquisition on resistance to extinction of an approach response in the rat. Animal Learning & Behavior 4, 451–456 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03214438
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