Two experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between baseline response rate and the effects of omission training and extinction training in pigeons. Exp. 1 employed four omission-training groups, differentiated by the values of the reinforcement-reinforcement and/or response-reinforcement intervals, and an extinction-training group while Exp. 2 used two omission-training groups and an extinction-training group. Results indicated that baseline response rate was not related to the differential effects of omission training and extinction training and that omission-training groups with relatively short interval values reduced responding significantly faster than did extinction-training groups.
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