Previous experiments showed that following acquisition of an association between a terry-cloth object conditioned stimulus (CS) and a live female unconditioned stimulus (US), male quail increased the frequency of their copulations with the inanimate CS during subsequent CS-alone (extinction) trials. The present experiment was conducted to identify the potential factors responsible for this unexpected increase in conditioned sexual behavior during extinction. A total of 57 naïve male quail were given pairings of a terry-cloth CS with a live female during acquisition. A total of 36 of these quail (the approach responders) showed only conditioned approach response to the CS object, whereas the remaining 21 quail (the consummatory responders) also displayed copulatory or consummatory responses to the CS. In the extinction phase, these two sets of quail were divided into two subgroups: one subgroup received a female in their home cages while the other did not. Consummatory responders that were not exposed to a female quail in the home cage showed a significant increase in conditioned consummatory responding as the extinction trials progressed (i.e., compulsive conditioned sexual responding), whereas the other subgroup showed no change. However, both subgroups showed resistance to extinction in both conditioned approach and consummatory behavior. These findings indicate that the increase in copulation with the terry-cloth CS during extinction is possibly caused by US deprivation. The findings also suggest that conditioned copulation with the terry-cloth CS may lead to partial drive satisfaction, which may contribute to persistence of the behavior. Implications of these findings for paraphilias and compulsive sexual behavior are discussed.

先前的实验表明，在获得毛巾布物体条件刺激 (CS) 和活的雌性无条件刺激 (US) 之间的关联后，雄性鹌鹑在随后的单独 CS（灭绝）期间增加了与无生命的 CS 交配的频率试验。本实验旨在确定导致灭绝期间条件性行为意外增加的潜在因素。在采集过程中，共有 57 只幼稚的雄性鹌鹑与一只活体雌性鹌鹑配对。共有 36 只鹌鹑（接近响应者）仅对 CS 对象表现出条件接近反应，而其余 21 只鹌鹑（完成响应者）也对 CS 显示出交配或完成响应。在灭绝阶段，这两组鹌鹑被分成两个亚群：一个亚群在自己的笼子里接收一只雌性，而另一个则没有。随着灭绝试验的进行（即强迫性条件性反应），未暴露于笼子中的雌性鹌鹑的完美反应者表现出条件性完美反应的显着增加，而其他亚组则没有变化。然而，两个亚组在条件方法和完善行为中都表现出对灭绝的抵抗力。这些发现表明，在灭绝过程中与毛圈布 CS 交配的增加可能是由美国的剥夺造成的。研究结果还表明，与毛圈布 CS 的条件性交配可能会导致部分驱动满足，这可能有助于行为的持久性。