scholarly journals Mitigating resurgence of destructive behavior using the discriminative stimuli of a multiple schedule

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne W. Fisher ◽  
Ashley M. Fuhrman ◽  
Brian D. Greer ◽  
Daniel R. Mitteer ◽  
Cathleen C. Piazza
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Schedule ◽  
Discriminative Stimuli ◽  
Destructive Behavior

An Aesthetic Theory of Vandalism

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon L. Allen ◽  
David B. Greenberger
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Previous Theory ◽  
Discriminative Stimuli ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Destructive Behavior ◽  
Initial Appearance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Practical Implications

An aesthetic theory of vandalism is proposed. The theory posits that the variables accounting for the enjoyment associated with socially acceptable aesthetic experiences are similarly responsible for the pleasure associated with acts of destruction. Previous theory and research in aesthetics have identified many important factors, such as complexity, expectation, novelty, intensity, and patterning, which are responsible for the pleasure that accompanies an aesthetic experience. These same psychological processes are involved in the destruction of an object. Furthermore, aesthetic variables implicated in an object's initial appearance and in its appearance after being vandalized may serve as eliciting or discriminative stimuli for destructive behavior. Several studies provide support for hypotheses derived from the aesthetic theory of vandalism. In conclusion, we examine the theory's practical implications for reducing vandalism in the schools.

Differential Multiple-Schedule Interactions in Rats

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1167-1175
Author(s):  
James F. Mc Coy ◽  
Merrill E. Pratt ◽  
Alan R. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Schedule ◽  
Behavioral Contrast ◽  
Variable Interval ◽  
Baseline Training ◽  
Discriminative Stimuli ◽  
Free Operant ◽  
Regular Extinction ◽  
Multiple Variable ◽  
Positive Behavioral Contrast ◽  
Negative Induction

Three experiments examined multiple-schedule interactions in a free-operant paradigm for rats. In Exps. 1 and 2 three rats each and in Exp. 3 five rats were given extended multiple variable-interval baseline training before being shifted to multiple variable-interval extinction. Visual discriminative stimuli and regular extinction, which allowed nonreinforced responding, were used in Exps. 1 and 2, but auditory discriminative stimuli and retraction of the lever to prevent responding during extinction were used in Exp. 3. Positive behavioral contrast was observed in only one out of six rats in Exps. 1 and 2, while negative induction was observed in the other five subjects. However, contrast was observed at some point in training for all five subjects in Exp. 3. The differential multiple-schedule interactions were attributed to the introduction of an additional stimulus-reinforcer dependency with regard to the presence vs absence of the lever in Exp. 3. Results support an autoshaping or additivity account of behavioral contrast.

Stimulus Discrimination through Intracranial Reinforcement

1966 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Wolff ◽  
D. D. Burnstein ◽  
R. K. Flory ◽  
J. Mabry
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Multiple Schedule ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Posterior Hypothalamus ◽  
Mammillary Body ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Discriminative Stimuli ◽  
Implanted Electrodes ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Self Stimulation

5 satiated rats and a guinea pig with chronically implanted electrodes were operantly conditioned to respond on a lever to receive intracranial self-stimulation (I.C.S.) under a multiple schedule of reinforcement. Response rates, under the control of visual or auditory discriminative stimuli, were appropriately high or low according to the requirements of the schedule. Alternating changes of the discriminative stimuli resulted in immediate shifting of response rates by Ss. Electrode placements were in the mammillary body area and the posterior hypothalamus. The findings indicate that I.C.S. reinforcement can be used to study discrimination acquisition in lower organisms.

Estrogen improves response accuracy and attenuates the disruptive effects of Δ⁹-THC in ovariectomized rats responding under a multiple schedule of repeated acquisition and performance.

2002 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill M. Daniel ◽  
Peter J. Winsauer ◽  
Ian N. Brauner ◽  
Joseph M. Moerschbaecher
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Schedule ◽  
Ovariectomized Rats ◽  
Response Accuracy ◽  
Repeated Acquisition ◽  
And Performance

Why Take Risks? Self-Destructive Behavior as Escape from Self

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Destructive Behavior

Relating multiple-schedule component preference and relative within-component response rates

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Weiss ◽  
David A. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Schedule ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Schedule Component

Military Deployment and Self-Destructive Behavior

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Military Deployment ◽  
Destructive Behavior

Variability of irrelevant discriminative stimuli.

1967 ◽  
Vol 73 (4, Pt.1) ◽  
pp. 574-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Zeaman ◽  
Joseph Denegre
Keyword(s):  
Discriminative Stimuli

Animal Models of Self-Destructive Behavior and Suicide

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline N. Crawley ◽  
Mary E. Sutton ◽  
David Piekar
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Destructive Behavior
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