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Frances K McSweeney

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McSweeney F, Murphy E
Behav Anal . 2020 Jan; 40(1):39-47. PMID: 31976932
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McSweeney F
Behav Anal . 2016 Sep; 38(2):247-54. PMID: 27606176
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McSweeney F
Behav Anal . 2012 Apr; 27(2):171-88. PMID: 22478427
Reinforcers lose their effectiveness when they are presented repeatedly. Early researchers labeled this loss of effectiveness as satiation without conducting an experimental analysis. When such an analysis is conducted, habituation...
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McSweeney F, Parks C
Behav Anal . 2012 Apr; 25(1):37-44. PMID: 22478376
We examined participation by women in journals devoted to social, developmental, cognitive, and general psychology. Authorship and first authorship by women increased from 1978 to 1997 for most journals. Participation...
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Rankin C, Abrams T, Barry R, Bhatnagar S, Clayton D, Colombo J, et al.
Neurobiol Learn Mem . 2008 Oct; 92(2):135-8. PMID: 18854219
The most commonly cited descriptions of the behavioral characteristics of habituation come from two papers published almost 40 years ago [Groves, P. M., & Thompson, R. F. (1970). Habituation: A...
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McSweeney F, Murphy E
Neurobiol Learn Mem . 2008 Aug; 92(2):189-98. PMID: 18674628
We argue that sensitization and habituation occur to the sensory properties of reinforcers when those reinforcers are presented repeatedly or for a prolonged time. Sensitization increases, and habituation decreases, the...
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Murphy E, McSweeney F, Kowal B, McDonald J, Wiediger R
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol . 2006 Nov; 14(4):471-82. PMID: 17115875
This study examined whether habituation, a decrease in responsiveness to a repeatedly presented stimulus, occurs to ethanol reinforcers in alcohol-preferring (P) rats. Three fundamental properties of habituation were evaluated: generality,...
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McSweeney F, Murphy E, Kowal B
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol . 2005 Sep; 13(3):163-84. PMID: 16173878
The authors argue that drug taking is an operant behavior that is reinforced by the drug itself. The effectiveness of a drug as a reinforcer is modulated by sensitization and...
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McSweeney F, Kowal B, Murphy E, Wiediger R
Behav Processes . 2005 Aug; 70(3):235-46. PMID: 16112816
The present experiment examined whether habituation contributes to within-session decreases in operant responding for water reinforcers. The experiment asked if this responding can be dis-habituated, a fundamental property of habituated...
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McSweeney F, Swindell S, Murphy E, Kowal B
Learn Behav . 2004 Jul; 32(2):190-201. PMID: 15281391
Pigeons' keypecking was reinforced by food on baseline schedules of multiple variable interval (VI) x VI x and on contrast schedules of multiple VI x VI y. Deprivation of food...