The effects of horn devaluation on the transfer of conditioned inhibition between horn and shock

Abstract

Two experiment using a cnnditinned suppressinn procedure iii rats assessed transfer of conditioned iahibitinn frorn a lnud car hora te electric shock, after postconditionlng manipulations designcd te habituate or cnuntercnnditinning tite aversive effects of tite hora. Bnth experhnents showed that tite inhibitory effects of a stimnulus are not resfrkted te tite reinforccr used la ita establishment, but that they generalize to otherreinfnrcers with similar characteristics. Tite experimcnts were less successful la habituating asad counter¬conditioning tite hora despite tite use of varinus parametric variatinns. Tite implications of diese findings for thenrics of conditinned inhibition are discussed.