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Thirty albino rats were conditioned to bar-press for water under either continuous or 45-sec fixed-interval reinforcement schedules. Extinction was then carried out with either zero reinforcements, omission training, or noncontingent 45-sec fixed-interval reinforcements. Resistance to extinction was measured by the number of bar presses, the time, and the rate of responding to a no response for 15 min criterion. It was concluded that the measure taken would affect many of the conclusions from extinction studies.
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The data for this study were collected while the senior author was on the faculty of Texas Technological College.
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Davidson, E.H., Walker, J.L. Resistance to extinction as a function of acquisition and extinction schedules and type of measurement. Psychon Sci 19, 63–64 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335509
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