Author ORCID Identifier
Semester
Fall
Date of Graduation
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Committee Chair
Kathryn M. Kestner
Committee Co-Chair
Mike Perone
Committee Member
Mike Perone
Committee Member
Melissa Blank
Abstract
Laboratory models of renewal are critical to inform clinical practice to reduce the occurrence of relapse and facilitate the maintenance of treatment gains. Nonsequential renewal is a modified procedure developed by Sullivan et al. (2018) that provides an alternative arrangement to study operant renewal in a manner more consistent with clinical experience. Experiment 1 replicated the procedure of Craig et al. (2019) to compare renewal of target responding in rats that were exposed to the nonsequential or sequential renewal procedure. Experiment 2 investigated the use of an olfactory extinction cue in mitigating renewal. In Experiment 1, the Nonsequential Group displayed a greater magnitude of renewal compared to the Sequential Group, consistent with Craig et al. (2019). The extinction cue did not appear to mitigate renewal in Experiment 2. The use of a laboratory model of renewal that is more analogous to clinical settings may be more valuable in a translational approach to investigating relapse-prevention techniques
Recommended Citation
Sarno, Brianna G., "Replication of a Nonsequential Renewal Model and Investigation of Extinction Cues for Attenuating Renewal" (2022). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 11584.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/11584