| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Miller, Sarah Joanne
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| Author's Email Address |
smill47@tigers.lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-11122012-154709 |
| Title |
A Comparison of Response-contingent and Noncontingent Pairing in the Conditioning of a Reinforcer |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
Psychology |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Noell, George |
Committee Chair |
| Gresham, Frank |
Committee Member |
| Tiger, Jeffrey |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- primary reinforcer
- conditioning
- secondary reinforcer
- conditioned reinforcement
- conditioned reinforcer
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| Date of Defense |
2012-08-23 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
Two pairing procedures were compared in the conditioning of a secondary reinforcer. Pairings of a neutral stimulus and primary reinforcer were delivered either contingent upon a participant response or noncontingently (i.e., independent of a participant response). Maintenance of responding when responses resulted in the neutral stimulus alone was compared before and throughout pairing using progressive-ratio probes. Results yielded undifferentiated responding between the contingently-paired and noncontingently-paired stimuli and a stimulus never paired with reinforcement, indicating that no conditioning effect occurred. Potential factors in producing this lack of differentiation are discussed, including differences in methodology between this study and past studies.
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