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Forty-eight naive male albino rats were trained to leverpress for sucrose on a continuous reinforcement schedule. Experimental groups received different intensities of footshock on a VR-2 schedule during acquisition. Extinction results suggested that the function relating intermittent punishment during acquisition to resistance to extinction may be quadratic.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the Graduate Research Council, LSD, to the first author.
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Young, A.G., Speier, A.H. Punishment and resistance to extinction. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 13, 305–306 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336878
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