TY - JOUR
AU - Abelson, R. M.
AB -  The purposes of the present investigation were, first, the establishment of the strength and temporal distribution of responses maintained by the termination and onset of a noise; and, secondly, the isolation of some of the variables which control such behavior. METHOD Subjects and apparatus Forty-two white rats were used in this experiment. The apparatus consisted of a lightproof and sound-resistant box containing a rat lever (Gerbrands) and a source of sound ("tweeter" loudspeaker). An essential feature of this equipment was a wire-mesh cage placed in the center of the larger box. The purpose of the wire-mesh cage was to insure that the animal was restricted within a uniform sound field. Preliminary experiments showed that the intensity of the sound rose sharply in the vicinity of the inner walls of the box, a possible factor in keeping the animal away from a lever mounted close to or through a wall. The sound consisted of a signal containing all frequencies between 500 and 20,000 cycles per second. Sound intensities were measured by an H. H. Scott sound level meter, the microphone of which was placed in the vicinity of the lever at about the same height above the floor as 
TI - THE MAINTENANCE OF BEHAVIOR BY THE TERMINATION AND ONSET OF INTENSE NOISE
JF - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
DO - 10.1901/jeab.1959.2-23
DA - 1959-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-maintenance-of-behavior-by-the-termination-and-onset-of-intense-eE3atef1Tu
SP - 23
VL - 2
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -