ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2020
Resurgence and downshifts in alternative reinforcement rate.
Article in Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05790668 (Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- Human-operant evaluation of synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Alternative-reinforcer magnitude effects on resurgence across successive relapse tests in mice.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Resurgence of Severe Challenging Behavior and Schedule Thinning with the Terminal Schedule Probe Method.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Zoographics in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Increasing inclusion of female animals.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Resurgence of destructive behavior following decreases in alternative reinforcement: A prospective analysis.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Examination of clinical variables affecting resurgence: A reanalysis of 46 applications.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Abstinence as Choice: Exploring Voluntary Abstinence from Alcohol Self-Administration Using the Resurgence-as-Choice Framework.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- Resurgence and Behavioral Contrast, Compared and Contrasted.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- Examining resurgence in rats following expanded-operant treatments.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2023Article
- Modeling Behavioral Persistence with Resurgence as Choice in Context (RaCBehavior analysis in practice · 2023Article
- A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Procedures and Analyses Used in Basic and Preclinical Studies of Resurgence, 1970-2020.Perspectives on behavior science · 2023Review
- Creating and Studying the Behavior of Artificial Organisms Animated by an Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics.Perspectives on behavior science · 2023Article
- Basic and applied research on extinction bursts.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Article
- Further evaluation of treatment duration on the resurgence of destructive behavior.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2023Article
- A Theory of the Extinction Burst.Perspectives on behavior science · 2022Article
- Translating quantitative theories of behavior into improved clinical treatments for problem behavior.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Phase duration and resurgence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2022Article
- Destructive behavior increases as a function of reductions in alternative reinforcement during schedule thinning: A retrospective quantitative analysis.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2021Article
- Application of the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics to severe challenging behavior.Journal of applied behavior analysisArticle
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Abstract
Resurgence refers to an increase in a previously suppressed target behavior with a relative worsening of conditions for a more recently reinforced alternative behavior. This experiment examined the relation between resurgence and the magnitude of a reduction in the rate of reinforcement for the alternative behavior. Groups of both male and female rats initially pressed a target lever for food on a variable-interval (VI) 30-s schedule. In a second phase, responding to the target lever was extinguished for all groups and pressing an alternative lever was reinforced on a VI 10-s schedule. Next, the rate of reinforcement for alternative behavior was reduced differentially across groups by arranging extinction, VI 80-s, VI 40-s, VI 20-s, or continued VI 10-s reinforcement. Target responding increased as an exponential function of the magnitude of the reduction in alternative reinforcement rates. With the exception that males appeared to show higher rates of target responding in baseline and higher rates of alternative responding in other phases, the overall pattern of responding across phases was not meaningfully different between sexes. The pattern of both target and alternative response rates across sessions and phases was well described quantitatively by the Resurgence as Choice in Context model.
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