• Blocking of Stimulus Control and Conditioned Reinforcement 

      Vandbakk, Monica; Olaff, Heidi Skorge; Holth, Per (Psychological Record;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-31)
      Stimuli with no specific biological relevance for the organism can acquire multiple functions through conditioning procedures. Conditioning procedures involving compound stimuli sometimes result in blocking, related to the ...
    • Conditioned Reinforcement: the Effectiveness of Stimulus—Stimulus Pairing and Operant Discrimination Procedures 

      Vandbakk, Monica; Olaff, Heidi Skorge; Holth, Per (The Psychological Record;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-12)
      The purpose of the present experiment was to evaluate which method, stimulus – stimulus pairing or operant discrimination training, establishes neutral stimuli as more effective conditioned reinforcers, and to explore ...
    • A critical review of the rodent social release paradigm: empathy or social reinforcement 

      Blystad, Magnus Helgheim (Revista Mexicana de Analisis de la Conducta;Vol. 45. No. 2 (2019), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-07)
      Research on social animal behavior is growing within social neuroscience. Basic research on behavioral processes in animals has always been the forte of behavior analysis, but the collaboration and crossover between the ...