Abstract
The present study extends our assessment of various shock parameters and training procedures as possible determinants of the paradoxical facilitating effect of shock for the correct response in discrimination training. Eighty hungry rats were trained with a non-correction procedure to make a light-dark discrimination for food under various durations of shock for either the right or wrong response. Trend analyses showed that, with greater durations of shock, errors decreased for the shock-wrong Ss but remained constant for the shock-right Ss and did not depart significantly from the performance of no-shock controls. The data delimit any broad generalization that shock for the correct response facilitates discrimination performance.
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