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The effect of noncontingent shock and the same rate of FI and FR schedules of response-contingent shock deliveries on a baseline of nondiscriminated operant avoidance was studied. Four rats received each of the conditions. The number of unavoided shocks decreased in the order FR, baseline, FI, noncontingent shock. For three Ss the response rate increased in the same order, but for the other S the positions of the baseline and FI conditions were reversed.
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Jones, R.T. The effects of response-contingent and noncontingent shock on free operant avoidance. Psychon Sci 17, 146–147 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336485
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