Extinction responding by septal and normal rats following acquisition under four schedules of reinforcement |
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Authors: | Paul Ellen Gail Gillenwater W.Kirk Richardson |
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Affiliation: | Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA |
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Abstract: | Extinction responding of animals with septal lesions was compared to that of normal animals following acquisition training under either DRL, FI, VI or FR reinforcement schedules (Part 1). During both acquisition and extinction, septals bar pressed more than normals. However, regardless of response levels, a given schedule changed behavior in the same direction for both septals and normals. Thus, if a given schedule led to a decrease in bar pressing by normals, it also led to a decrease by septals, although the absolute level of responding at which this occurred might be different for the two groups. Similarly, if a schedule led to an increase in responding by normals, it also led to an increase by septals. In Part 2 of the experiment operant levels of septals were not found to be different from those of normals, and noncontingent food delivery generated no more nor less bar pressing in septals than in normals. It was proposed that the septal area may be of importance in the initiation of behavior which competes with the required or reinforced response. |
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Keywords: | Septal lesions Extinction Schedules of reinforcement Noncontingent reinforcement Operant level |
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