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Under DRL 20- and 30-sec, rats’ leverpresses with interresponse times shorter than the minimum interresponse time required for reinforcement produced a 15- or 60-sec time-out. The only systematic effect of the time-out procedure was to suppress responses with interresponse times shorter than 2 sec, suggesting that time-out functioned as stimulus feedback for a response. The effect of time-out was interpreted in terms of the dissimilarity between the operant and the consummatory response.
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A version of this paper was presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, September, 1974. Thanks to John R. Platt for his comments on these data.
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Czerwinski, A.S., Rodwan, A.S. Effect of error-contingent time-out on spaced responding in rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 5, 342–344 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333268
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