Food was intermittently presented to pigeons on a response-independent basis. Concurrently, pecking at a key was intermittently reinforced with the presentation of stimuli which accompanied the food presentation, but not the food. Under these conditions, key-pecking was maintained indefinitely at moderate rates and control procedures demonstrated that the results could only be accounted for on the basis of conditioned reinforcement.
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