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We analysed precisely, with video tapes, the behaviour of 38 Wistar rats submitted to a continuous reinforcement in a Skinner box. Animals displayed 14 different behavioural patterns close to the bar. We found that the increasing frequency of the bar press, generally considered as a unitary response was, in fact, due to summation of the development of several different behaviour frequencies. A...