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Rats underwent fixed-ratio training and extinction with and without a correlated counter under either intracranial or liquid reinforcement. The added counter increased resistance to extinction. This effect was attributed to secondary reinforcing properties of the counter, and taken as evidence for an interpretation of rapid extinction under ICR as being due to lack of conditioned reinforcement.
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Based on part of a Masters Thesis, Tufts University, June, 1967. Thanks is due to committee chairman A. William Mills and members Bernard W. Harleston, Ina Samuels, and Ezra V. Saul.
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Huston, J.P. Extinction under intracranial and conventional reinforcement: Effect of a correlated counter. Psychon Sci 11, 25–26 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328134
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