Abram Amsel
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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abram Amsel was a Canadian-born American psychologist and faculty member at several universities. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he conducted influential research into concepts of reward and nonreward in learning and behavior. Later, his research shifted from learning theory to neurobiology.
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- The role of frustrative nonreward in noncontinuous reward situations. (1958) (1270)
- Frustrative nonreward in partial reinforcement and discrimination learning: some recent history and a theoretical extension. (1962) (903)
- Motivational properties of frustration. I. Effect on a running response of the addition of frustration to the motivational complex. (1952) (422)
- Partial Reinforcement Effects On Vigor and Persistence: Advances in Frustration Theory Derived from a Variety of Within-Subjects Experiments1 (1967) (292)
- Frustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory (1992) (219)
- Frustration theory: Subject index (1992) (149)
- Partial reinforcement effects within subject and between subjects. (1966) (102)
- A simple test of the vicarious trial-and-error hypothesis of hippocampal function. (1995) (94)
- FRUSTRATION AND PERSISTENCE: RESISTANCE TO DISCRIMINATION FOLLOWING PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE DISCRIMINANDA. (1964) (92)
- Appetitive learning, patterned alternation, and extinction in 10-d-old rats with non-lactating suckling as reward (1976) (83)
- Behavioral contrast and frustration effect in multiple and mixed fixed-interval schedules in ther rat. (1970) (80)
- The effect upon generalized drive strength of emotionality as inferred from the level of consummatory response. (1950) (73)
- Frustration theory--many years later. (1992) (73)
- Behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, and Cognitivism in Learning Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1988) (68)
- Behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of prenatal, postnatal, or combined exposure to ethanol in weanling rats. (1990) (67)
- Ultrasound emission in infant rats as an indicant of arousal during appetitive learning and extinction. (1977) (66)
- Ontogeny of successive negative contrast and its dissociation from other paradoxical reward effects in preweanling rats. (1981) (65)
- Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error? (1993) (62)
- Short-term and long-term factors in extinction and durable persistence (1971) (62)
- Motivational properties of frustration. III. Relation of frustration effect to antedating goal factors. (1957) (61)
- Effects of prenatal and early postnatal ethanol exposure on [3H]MK-801 binding in rat cortex and hippocampus. (1997) (56)
- Two tests of the Sheffield hypothesis concerning resistance to extinction, partial reinforcement, and distribution of practice. (1955) (55)
- Prior fixed ratio training and durable persistence in rats (1976) (54)
- Aversion learning in 5-day-old rats: taste-toxicosis and texture-shock associations. (1980) (52)
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Paradoxical Reward Effects1 (1980) (49)
- Number of food pellets, goal approaches and the partial reinforcement effect after minimal acquisition. (1968) (47)
- NMDA receptor subunit expression after combined prenatal and postnatal exposure to ethanol. (2004) (47)
- Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior: Clark L. Hull's Theoretical Papers, with Commentary (1986) (46)
- Experimental psychopathology : recent research and theory (1971) (44)
- Selective association and the anticipatory goal response mechanism as explanatory concepts in learning theory. (1949) (44)
- Blood ethanol concentration from early postnatal exposure : effects on memory-based learning and hippocampal neuroanatomy in infant and adult rats (1992) (42)
- Age of first appearance of simultaneous and successive negative contrast in infant rats. (1984) (42)
- The combination of a primary appetitional need with primary and secondary emotionally derived needs. (1950) (40)
- Transfer of persistence from fixed-ratio barpress training to runway extinction (1976) (39)
- Ingestional aversion learning in preweanling rats. (1978) (39)
- Arousal, Suppression, and Persistence: Frustration Theory, Attention, and its Disorders (1990) (39)
- Motivational properties of frustration: II. Frustration drive stimulus and frustration reduction in selective learning. (1954) (38)
- Précis ofFrustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory (1994) (38)
- Appetitive learning and extinction in 11-day-old rat pups: Effects of various reinforcement conditions. (1977) (38)
- Acquisition and extinction under single alternation and random partial-reinforcement conditions with a 24-hour intertrial interval. (1966) (36)
- Immediate and long-term effects of neonatal MK-801 treatment on nonspatial learning. (1998) (34)
- Prolonged, unsignaled, inescapable shocks increase persistence in subsequent appetitive instrumental learning (1977) (34)
- Anxiety-produced interference in serial rote learning with observations on rote learning after partial frontal lobectomy. (1948) (34)
- Selective activity enhancement and persistence in weanling rats after hippocampal X-irradiation in infancy: possible relevance for ADHD. (1994) (34)
- Evidence for a transitional period for development of persistence in infant rats. (1978) (33)
- MAGNITUDE OF THE FRUSTRATION EFFECT AS A FUNCTION OF CONFINEMENT AND DETENTION IN THE FRUSTRATING SITUATION. (1964) (32)
- NMDA receptor subunit expression following early postnatal exposure to ethanol. (2002) (31)
- The effect upon level of consummatory response of the addition of anxiety to a motivational complex. (1950) (30)
- Subject-to-subject trial sequence, odor trails, and patterning at24-h ITI (1969) (30)
- PARTIAL REINFORCEMENT (ACQUISITION) EFFECTS WITHIN SUBJECTS. (1964) (30)
- Nonspecific vaginosis. (1981) (29)
- Within-subject demonstration of a relationship between frustration and magnitude of reward in a differential magnitude of reward discrimination (1967) (28)
- Ontogeny of persistence: immediate and long-term persistence in rats varying in training age between 17 and 65 days. (1976) (28)
- Recall (versus recognition) of taste and immunization against aversive taste anticipations based on illness. (1980) (28)
- Sparing of patterned alternation but not partial reinforcement effect after infant and adult hippocampal lesions in the rat. (1985) (27)
- Transfer of slow-response rituals to extinction of a continuously rewarded response. (1968) (27)
- Introduction of acoustic stimulation during acquisition and resistance to extinction in the normal and hippocampally damaged rat. (1973) (26)
- Adjustment to reward reduction (but no negative contrast) in rats 11, 14, and 16 days of age. (1980) (24)
- Alleviation of x-irradiation-based deficit in memory-based learning by D-amphetamine: suggestions for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. (1998) (24)
- Learned persistence at 11-12 days but not at 10-11 days in infant rats. (1980) (24)
- Daniel Berlyne memorial lecture. Developmental psychobiology and behaviour theory: reciprocating influences. (1986) (23)
- Blood ethanol concentration from early postnatal exposure: effects on memory-based learning and hippocampal neuroanatomy in infant and adult rats. (1992) (23)
- Effects of MK-801 on vicarious trial-and-error and reversal of olfactory discrimination learning in weanling rats (1998) (23)
- Fetal ethanol exposure diminishes hippocampal beta-adrenergic receptor density while sparing muscarinic receptors during development. (1990) (23)
- Secondary reinforcement and frustration. (1968) (22)
- Magnitude of Frustration Effect and Strength of Antedating Goal Factors (1961) (21)
- Performance under a single alternation schedule of reinforcement at 24-hour intertrial intervals (1965) (21)
- The role of learned factors in "spontaneous" activity. (1961) (21)
- The influence of early experience on the frustration effect. (1962) (21)
- Memory-based learning in preweanling and adult rats after infantile x-irradiation-induced hippocampal granule cell hypoplasia. (1992) (20)
- Retention and durability of persistence acquired by young and infant rats. (1975) (19)
- Patterned (single) alternation in 11- and 14-day-old rats under various reward conditions. (1980) (18)
- Generalization of fear-motivated interference with water intake. (1953) (18)
- Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on learned persistence and hippocampal neuroanatomy in infant, weanling and adult rats (1991) (17)
- THE INFLUENCE OF MAGNITUDE OF REWARD ON THE AVERSIVE PROPERTIES OF ANTICIPATORY FRUSTRATION. (1964) (17)
- Mitigating effects of combined prenatal and postnatal exposure to ethanol on learned persistence in the weanling rat: a replication under high-peak conditions. (1993) (17)
- Development of vicarious trial-and-error behavior in odor discrimination learning in the rat: relation to hippocampal function? (1997) (17)
- Durability of persistence as a function of number of partially reinforced trials (1971) (17)
- Frustration theory and partial reinforcement effects: the acquisition-extinction paradox. (1969) (15)
- Appendix: some phenomena predicted or explained by frustration theory (1992) (15)
- Effects of photic stimulation on heart rate of infant rats. (1986) (15)
- The generalized PRE: Within-S PRF and CRF training in different runways, at different times of day, by different experimenters (1968) (15)
- Extinction following partial delay of reward with immediate continuous reward interpolated, at 24-hour intertrial intervals. (1967) (15)
- The NMDA antagonist MK-801 affects nonspatial learning in preweanling rats. (1996) (14)
- Transfer of experimenter-imposed slow-response patterns to extinction of a continuously rewarded response. (1969) (14)
- Patterned (single) alternation in infant rats after combined or separate lesions of hippocampus and amygdala. (1989) (14)
- Extinction after regular and irregular reward schedules in the infant rat: influence of age and training duration. (1999) (14)
- Resistance to extinction of a running response after a small number of partially rewarded trials (1967) (13)
- The partial reinforcement acquisition effect in preweanling and juvenile rats (1980) (13)
- Effects on the partial reinforcement extinction effect and on physical and reflex development of short-term in utero exposure to ethanol at different periods of gestation. (1988) (12)
- Judaism and psychology (1969) (12)
- Retention under changed-reward conditions of persistence learned by infant rats. (1980) (12)
- Magnitude of reward and the frustration effect in a within-subjects design (1964) (12)
- Effect of interpolated extinction on the reacquisition of partially and continuously rewarded responses. (1966) (12)
- A “patterning” effect that seems unrelated to after-effects from reward and nonreward (1965) (11)
- A “split-alley” technique for equating brightness in a visual discrimination task (1966) (11)
- Frustrative factors in selective learning with reward and nonreward as discriminanda. (1959) (11)
- Sparing of patterned alternation but not partial reinforcement extinction effect after prenatal chronic exposure to ethanol in infant rats. (1988) (11)
- The kinematics of locomotion toward a goal. (1987) (11)
- Persistence early and late in extinction as a function of number of continuous reinforcements preceding partial reinforcement training (1973) (11)
- Transfer of persistence in the domestic chick: Imprinting, punishment, and resistance to extinction of a food-reward running response (1971) (10)
- Effect of Interpolated Extinction after Partial Delay of Reward Training on Subsequent Reacquisition and Extinction (1968) (10)
- Number of food pellets and the partial reinforcement extinction effect after extended acquisition (1969) (10)
- Age-dependent effects of hippocampal muscarinic receptor blockade on memory-based learning in the developing rat (1993) (9)
- Habituation to shock and learned persistence in preweanling, juvenile, and adult rats. (1982) (9)
- Effects of early postnatal alcohol exposure on learning in the developing rat: replication with intubation method of delivery. (1999) (9)
- Transfer of persistence effects from frustration produced by blocking to frustration produced by nonreinforcement (1970) (8)
- Bidirectional heart-rate change to photic stimulation in infant rats: implication for orienting/defensive reflex distinction. (1982) (8)
- Adjustment of weanling and adolescent rats to a reward condition requiring slow responding. (1981) (8)
- Within-subjects partial reinforcement effects varying percentage of reward to the partial stimulus between groups. (1968) (8)
- Acquisition and extinction, within subjects, of a continuously rewarded response and a response learned under discontinuous negatively correlated reward (1967) (8)
- Work and rest factors in eyelid conditioning. (1952) (7)
- Retention of response persistence in weanling and adolescent rats. (1980) (7)
- Activity during and between periods of stimulus change related to feeding. (1962) (7)
- Ontogeny of heart rate response to milk infusion in infant rats as a function of level of deprivation. (1983) (7)
- Hope Comes to Learning Theory. (1961) (7)
- The effect of food deprivation and imprinting on the behavior of young domestic chicks (1971) (6)
- Confinement duration on rewarded and nonrewarded trials and patterning at 24-hour ITI (1968) (5)
- B. F. Skinner and the cognitive revolution. (1992) (5)
- Generalization of the partial reinforcement effect (1968) (5)
- Reversal of a postnatal alcohol-induced deficit in learned persistence in the rat by d-amphetamine. (1999) (5)
- Postnatal high-peak blood ethanol concentration and external cue-based discrimination learning and reversal in the preweanling rat: comparison with memory-based discrimination learning. (1994) (5)
- The effect of partial “quinine” reward on acquisition and extinction (1970) (5)
- Rate of learning a visual brightness discrimination as a function of discriminanda durations. (1952) (4)
- Confessions of a neobehaviorist (1992) (4)
- Heart-rate responses of infant rats and guinea pigs to stimulus onset and offset: tests of the generality of a bidirectional effect. (1985) (4)
- The partial-reinforcement extinction effect in 4–5-day-old guinea pigs (1983) (3)
- A design and model for estimating the effects of one trial on the next in a sequence having two types of trial. (1969) (2)
- Comment on Role of prefeeding in an apparent frustration effect. (1958) (2)
- Hippocampus, memory and movement (1979) (2)
- The effects of CR-contingent UCS presentations in eyelid conditioning (1965) (2)
- Behavorism from the standpoint of a neobehaviorist (1993) (1)
- Behaviorism Then and Now. (1982) (1)
- Plasma corticosterone levels in the rat following discrete-trial discrimination or a single extinction trial (1976) (1)
- Effects of inescapable shock in the rat: Learned helplessness or response competition (1975) (1)
- Performance of rats in a runway under three concurrent conditions of reinforcement (1971) (1)
- Comment on Cognitive Interpretation of Pre in a Discrimination Situation (1964) (1)
- Can generalization of the partial reinforcement extinction effect be reduced by distinctiveness pretraining (1969) (1)
- Frustration theory: Toward a developmental psychobiology of dispositional learning and memory (1992) (1)
- Frustration theory: Frustration theory: an overview of its experimental basis (1992) (0)
- Ontogeny of dispositional learning and the reward-schedule effects (1992) (0)
- Frustration theory: Summing up: steps in the psychobiological study of related behavioral effects (1992) (0)
- Frustration theory: Applications to humans: a recapitulation and an addendum (1992) (0)
- Generalization of reactive inhibition. (1962) (0)
- O. H. Mowrer: Words Past and Last. (1985) (0)
- Discrimination of pain from conditioned pain in the rat. (1951) (0)
- Frustration theory: Survival, durability, and transfer of persistence (1992) (0)
- CV3: A COST COMPARISON STUDY OF AMLODIPINE AND ENALAPRIL AS TREATMENT FOR HYPERTENSION IN THE UNITED STATES (1999) (0)
- Clark L. Hull's Behaviorism (1999) (0)
- Frustration theory: Preface (1992) (0)
- Age and Dose-Related Effects of Hippocampal Ibotenic Acid on Lesion Size, Mortality, and Nonspatial Working Memory in Infant Rats (1995) (0)
- The effects of prolonged thwarting on instfumental response extinction (1973) (0)
- Motivational and associative mechanisms of behavior (1992) (0)
- Introduction: reward-schedule effects and dispositional learning (1992) (0)
- Frustration theory: Alternatives and additions to frustration theory (1992) (0)
- Discrimination learning and prediscrimination effects (1992) (0)
- Frustration as a consequence of inconsistent reward in children with adhd (1990) (0)
- Erratum to: The effect of partial “quinine” reward on acquisition and extinction (1971) (0)
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