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Rats can learn to run fast, fast, and slow, respectively, in discriminably different runways signaling continuous, partial, and discontinuous negatively correlated reinforcement. Performance of animals operating under such multiple reinforcement conditions in runways is compared with yoked controls, and implications for the study of transfer effects in extinction are discussed.
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This research was conducted at the University of Toronto and was supported by Research Grants GB-3772 from the National Science Foundation and APA-72 from the National Research Council of Canada. The authors wish to thank Michael Ross who helped collect a part of the data.
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Rashotte, M.E., Amsel, A. Performance of rats in a runway under three concurrent conditions of reinforcement. Psychon Sci 22, 21–23 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335918
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