Self-punitive behavior: Masochism or confusion?

Dreyer, Paul I.; Ke, Renner

doi:10.1037/h0031055

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“…They continue to emit the operant even when it produces shock (Kelleher, Riddle, & Cook, 1963;McKearney, 1969;Pomerleau, 1970). The subjects seem to react to the unavoidable shock as information that they have not responded enough, rather than that the avoidance re-sponse is ineffective (see Dreyer & Renner, 1971). This experiment may have produced an analogous phenomenon using a visceral avoidance task.…”

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Alteration of classically conditioned heart rate by operant reinforcement in monkeys.

Ainslie¹,

Engel²

1974

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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Monkeys were run alternately on classical conditioning and on operant heart rate training schedules. The classical unconditioned stimulus was identical to the operant negative reinforcement. After operant training, some subjects changed their heart rate responses to the classically conditioned stimulus. When both the operant and the classical schedules were in force simultaneously, all subjects changed their previous heart rate responses to the classically conditioned stimulus without significantly changing their blood pressure responses to this stimulus. The changes in heart rate response to the conditioned stimulus sometimes persisted long after the operant schedules were no longer in force. These results show that a classically conditioned response can be altered by operant reinforcement, and they suggest that the classical unconditioned stimulus actually may be an operant reinforcer.

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Alteration of classically conditioned heart rate by operant reinforcement in monkeys.

Ainslie¹,

Engel²

1974

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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“…The above proposal does not imply that punishment is really any less aversive than we have always thought. Although it has recently been shown that a particular experimental history can make animals seem to work for electric shock (Kelleher, Riddle, & Cook, 1963;McKearney, 1969;Pomerleau, 1970), this seems better explained as subjects' confusion about the true response contingencies (Dreyer & Renner, 1971) than as the unmasking of a rewarding effect capable of sustaining muscular behavior.…”

Section: Punishmentmentioning

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Specious reward: A behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control.

Ainslie¹

1975

Psychological Bulletin

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The expenses of getting it ready for publication were met by Milton Fund Grant 60-220-2119-2 from Harvard Medical School. I would like to thank Elmer J. Schaefer for making me aware of the economic literature relevant to this article. He, Bernard T. Engel, and William R. Whipple made helpful comments on the manuscript, but responsibility for the assertions made here remains my own. Requests for reprints should be sent to George

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“…In both of the cited studies by Brown, shock was presented in an intermediate portion of the runway as compared to goal shock in the present study. Dreyer and Renner (1971) contend that self-punitive behavior is due to the failure to discriminate a change in experimental conditions between prior training and the self-punitive phase of training. The general assumption made by these investigators is that once such a discrimination occurs, self-punitive responding ceases.…”

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Self-punitive responding in rats with goal shock and color change

Hom

Babb

1975

Animal Learning & Behavior

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After acquisition avoidance training, rats were assigned on the basis of matched run speed to the following groups: (1) maintenance of avoidance training, (2) extinction procedures with the addition of a brief shock in the goalbox, and (3) regular extinction procedures. Each group was further divided into two minor groups which experienced either change or no change in goalbox color. The results indicated:(1) that self-punitive responding was increased by goal shock, (2) that self-punitive responding was reduced by goalbox color change, and (3) that generalization of goal shock to the startbox and runway areas is a factor in self-punitive responding.

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Self-punitive behavior: Masochism or confusion?

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Alteration of classically conditioned heart rate by operant reinforcement in monkeys.

Alteration of classically conditioned heart rate by operant reinforcement in monkeys.

Specious reward: A behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control.

Self-punitive responding in rats with goal shock and color change

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