ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents come closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses schedules of both positive and negative reinforcement can generate adjunctive behavior. It begins with positive reinforcement. The book examines schedules of aversive stimuli generate attacks directed at animate or inanimate objects immediately following the presentation of the aversive stimulus. It also discusses some schedules of electric shock maintain patterns of responding in cats and squirrel monkeys similar to the corresponding schedule of reinforcement. Stimuli that are paired with reinforcement or punishment become conditioned reinforcers or punishers, respectively. The book explores that the reinforcer or punisher need not be contingent on a response in order for adjunctive behavior to occur. There are striking similarities between adjunctive behavior on schedules of positive reinforcement and behavior elicited by aversive stimuli. The book recalls that conditioned suppression occurs when operant behavior is suppressed in the presence of a conditioned aversive stimulus.
