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Two groups of rats received differential-reward conditioning in the second alley (A2) of the double-alley apparatus with the first goalbox (G1) reward serving as the discriminative stimulus for A2 reward. A third group received varied G1 reward uncorrelated with A2 reward. Results showed that Ss responded to both the discriminative and magnitude properties of G1 reward.
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Supported by Research Grant MH10340 from the United States Public Health Service.
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Calef, R.S., Meyer, P.A., Maxwell, F.R. et al. Synthesis of double alley and discrimination phenomena: Cue and magnitude specific properties of G1 reward. Psychon Sci 17, 39–41 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329157
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Keywords
- Discriminative Stimulus
- Large Reward
- Reward Magnitude
- Small Reward
- Frustrative Nonreward