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The uncertain domain of resistance to change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Ben A. Williams  and
Matthew C. Bell
Ben A. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
Matthew C. Bell
Affiliation:
Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University, 6363 Alvarado Ct., Suite 209, San Diego, CA 92120-4913 [email protected] psy.ucsd.edu/~mbell
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Abstract

Two important assumptions of behavioral momentum theory are contradicted by existing data. Resistance to change is not due simply to the Pavlovian contingency between a discriminative stimulus and the rate of reinforcement in its presence, because variations in the response-reinforcer contingency, independent of the stimulus-reinforcer contingency, produce differential resistance to change. Resistance to change is also not clearly related to measures of preference, in that several experiments show the two measures to dissociate.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 116 - 117
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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