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Twenty male albino rats were trained to run a straight runway on a partial reinforcement schedule. On reinforced trials a lever was introduced into the goalbox, and the subject leverpressed for sucrose on either a continuous reinforcement schedule (CRF) or on a partial reinforcement schedule (PR). On nonreinforced runway trials, the lever in the goalbox remained retracted. Upon completion of acquisition, subjects were extinguished in the runway. Results showed that subjects that received CRF on the lever were significantly more resistant to extinction than were subjects that received PR on the lever.
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This research was supported in part by a grant from the Graduate Council on Research, Louisiana State University, to the first author.
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Young, A.G., Favret, W.R. & Blakney, P.M. Resistance to extinction as a function of reinforcement schedule and amount of reinforcement. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 313–314 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337200
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337200