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Following key peck training to a chromatic stimulus, one group of pigeons was given CER training with a white vertical line superimposed on the key as the CS and shock as the US; a second group was given presentations of the CS only; a third group received shock only with no CS preceding it on the key; a fourth group received only the key peck training with the chromatic stimulus. All groups then received identical training on a successive operant discrimination involving auditory stimuli. The CER subjects learned this discrimination faster than did subjects in the other three groups, which did not differ. The results extend the generality of conditions which facilitate the acquisition of successive operant discriminations.
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This paper is based on a dissertation submitted by Dwight Walker to the Graduate School, Kansas State University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree. This research was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant in Experimental Psychology MH.Q8359 and in part by the Bureau of General Research, Kansas State University.
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Frieman, J., Walker, D. The effects of CER training on the acquisition of a successive operant discrimination. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 9, 419–422 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337043
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