CS-duration and partial-reinforcement effects counteract overshadowing in select situations |
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| Authors: | Kouji Urushihara Ralph R Miller |
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| Institution: | Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | Two experiments used rats in a conditioned lick suppression preparation to investigate how the conditioned stimulus (CS)-duration
and partial-reinforcement effects (i.e., weakened responding due to conditioning with a CS of longer duration and presenting
nonreinforced CSs intermingled with CS—unconditioned stimulus US] pairings, respectively) interact with overshadowing. Experiment
1 found that when overshadowing treatment was combined with either extended CS duration or partial reinforcement, the response
deficit was weaker than when either of these three treatments was administered alone. In Experiment 2, the generality of the
findings in Experiment 1 was investigated by replicating it with various US—US intervals. This time counteraction was observed
only when both the absolute duration of total CS exposure and the US—US interval were short. The results support neither the
view that the ratio between the total CS exposure and total time in the context determines the CS-duration and the partial-reinforcement
effects nor the view that these two effects arise from a loss of effectiveness of the excitatory CS—US association during
CS-alone exposures in partial reinforcement or early periods of CS exposure with long CSs. |
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