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Eight rats were conditioned to press a bar. A light was then established as a discriminative stimulus for the experimental animals, but not for the control Ss. Following discrimination training, the bar was removed and a new manipulandum, a chain, was introduced. After chain pulling was conditioned, the Ss were run to a 3 min. extinction criterion. The light was then turned on for 10 min. (no further reinforcement) and during this period the experimental group emitted significantly more chain pull responses than the control group.
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Wenrich, W.W., Cahoon, D.D., Ambrose, G. et al. Secondary stimulus control of a “new” operant incompatible with “running to the food magazine”. Psychon Sci 5, 189–190 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328346
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