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The effect of two degrees of training of rats to both arms of a T-maze, one associated with partial reinforcement and the other with continuous, were investigated. Animals were permitted free choice of arms in extinction trials, and extra training did not diminish the strong preference for CRF. In a third, no-choice group, animals were extinguished in one arm or the other, but not both: extinction took as long to CRF- as it did to PR-associated stimuli.
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1. We thank H. Buchtel, J. Lanzetta, R. Leaton, R. Musty, and T. Tighe for their many suggestions. The study was carried out by the first author under the direction of the second in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the senior undergraduate courses in independent research.
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Divak, M., Elliott, R. Effects in extinction, with and without free choice, of degree of experience with stimuli associated with both partial and continuous reinforcement. Psychon Sci 7, 255–256 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331103
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