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The uncertain domainof 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 mbell@mail.sdsu.edu psy.ucsd.edu/~mbell
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Abstract

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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.

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