Abstract
Human Ss were exposed to a discriminated punishment contingency with the aversive stimulus being an air puff to the cornea. In most Ss there was an increase in response probability (an eyelid reflex) across trials and an application of the two-phase model showed that the increases, though not great, were reliable. An analysis of the estimated parameter values showed that for only 5 of the 26 Ss did the pattern of parameter values conform to what would be expected on the basis of either two-factor or relative reinforcement theory. The results were, however, consistent with what might have been expected from giving Ss a low ratio intermittent reinforcement schedule in a more traditional classical conditioning arrangement.
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