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Three groups of 20 Ss were given 200, 1,000 or 3,000 reinforcements in a Skinner box on a VI 30-sec. schedule of reinforcement. On the day following completion of training, half of each group was exposed to a 1 hr. test session in which punishment followed each response; the remaining Ss were given a 1 hr. extinction test session. The mean number of punished responses during testing was nonmonotonic ally related to amount of training, while additional training increased resistance to extinction of the unpunished groups.
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1. This research was supported by a grant from the University of Utah Faculty Research Fund.
2. The writer expresses his gratitude to John Behney, Ronald Menlove, and James Peterson for assistance in running Ss.
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Born, D.G. Resistance of a free operant to extinction and suppression with punishment as a function of amount of training. Psychon Sci 8, 21–22 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330647
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