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This study describes the relationship between the tranquilizing drug chlordiazepoxide HCL and different magnitudes of reward during acquisition and extinction of a partially reinforced runway response. The results do not support predictions drawn directly from Amsel’s (1958, 1962) frustrative nonreward hypothesis. Animals exhibited the same magnitude of reward extinction effect whether sedated during acquisition or not. Some evidence was found of a reversal in this effect in animals sedated in both acquisition and extinction.
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Ison, J. R. Pharmacological approaches to two process learning theory. Paper presented at the meeting of the Behavioral Pharmacology Society, Groton, Connecticut, May 1968.
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This research was part of a Master’s thesis submitted by the first author to the Department of Psychology, Connecticut College. An abbreviated version of this study was reported at the EPA meetings, Washington, D.C., May 1973.
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Demarest, J., MacKinnon, J.R. Effects of chlordiazepoxide and reward magnitude on the acquisition and extinction of a partially reinforced response. Psychobiology 6, 78–82 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03326697
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