Social Facilitation of Responses During a Stimulus Paired with Electric Shock

Overview

Journal J Exp Anal Behav

Specialties Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 1967 Jul 1

PMID 6033560

Citations 10

Authors

D F Hake

D R Laws

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Abstract

Key-pecking responses of a pigeon were maintained by a variable-interval schedule of food reinforcement. The responses were suppressed during the occasional presentation of a warning stimulus paired with electric shock. The presence of a second pigeon emitting the same response for food reinforcement reduced the suppression that otherwise occurred during the warning stimulus when the second pigeon was absent. These results reveal that the social facilitation phenomenon can be used to restore behavior that is suppressed by a conditioned aversive stimulus.

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