scholarly journals Simultaneous incentive contrast effects with alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages as the discriminanda for reward magnitude

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Miles Cox

1966 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman E. Spear ◽  
Joseph H. Spitzner






1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Wookey

Recent evidence concerning successive incentive contrast suggests the occurrence of both positive and negative contrast effects under both non-transfer and transfer conditions. There are three types of explanation for these contrast effects, based on frustration theory, sequential theory and adaptation level theory (perceptual accounts). One of the critical experiments favouring perceptual accounts, Collier and Marx (1959), is subject to a number of methodological criticisms. This experiment was repeated, with modifications to take account of these criticisms, and extended to include transfer, as well as non-transfer, conditions. There was no evidence of contrast. In a further experiment using Collier and Marx's procedure with lever pressing and panel pushing, positive and negative, transfer and non-transfer effects were found using Noyes pellets rather than sucrose as reward. It is suggested that these results contribute some support to perceptual accounts of incentive contrast, although no present theory is entirely satisfactory.





1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Barnes ◽  
Tom N. Tombaugh

The effects of reductions in volume only, concentration only, and volume plus concentration of sucrose rewards were studied in a discrete-trial (retractable bar) situation. There was no evidence of abrupt behavioral decrements or negative contrast effects associated with any type of reward reduction. The present results are in opposition to those obtained following variations in solid food rewards. These findings suggest that the effects of sucrose and solid food manipulations require different theoretical interpretations.





1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Miles Cox ◽  
John E. Mertz


1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-511
Author(s):  
Lawrence Weinstein

Exp. I demonstrated that positive incentive contrast effects in an operant conditioning chamber produced by an increase in the concentration of a saccharine solution in 30 180-day-old rats (older animals) are not found in 30 25-day-old rats (younger rats). Exp. II indicated that the probability of obtaining positive contrast with 60 male albino rats is a positive function of the length of the preshift period.



2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio R. Papini ◽  
H.Wayne Ludvigson ◽  
David Huneycutt ◽  
Robert L. Boughner


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