Failure of excitatory conditioning to extinguish the influence of a conditioned inhibitor.

Four experiments examined the effect of pairing Stimulus B with food after it had taken part in a discrimination in which Stimulus A was paired with food and the Simultaneous Compound AB was followed by nothing. Experiment 1 revealed that responding during AB, after conditioning with B, was weaker than for a group given nonreinforced trials with B, rather than AB, in the initial discrimination. Experiments 2 and 3 revealed that despite conditioning with B, subsequent reacquisition of the original discrimination was more rapid than for control groups. Experiment 4 revealed a similar outcome when the discrimination in the test phase was negative patterning, in which A and B were individually paired with food, whereas together they were followed by nothing

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