A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RESPONDING MAINTAINED BY INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT<sup>1</sup>

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior - Tập 11 Số 3S2 - Trang 327-383 - 1968
A. Charles Catania1, G. S. Reynolds1
1NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

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Interval schedules of reinforcement maintained pigeons' key‐pecking in six experiments. Each schedule was specified in terms of mean interval, which determined the maximum rate of reinforcement possible, and distribution of intervals, which ranged from many‐valued (variable‐interval) to single‐valued (fixed‐interval). In Exp. 1, the relative durations of a sequence of intervals from an arithmetic progression were held constant while the mean interval was varied. Rate of responding was a monotonically increasing, negatively accelerated function of rate of reinforcement over a range from 8.4 to 300 reinforcements per hour. The rate of responding also increased as time passed within the individual intervals of a given schedule. In Exp. 2 and 3, several variable‐interval schedules made up of different sequences of intervals were examined. In each schedule, the rate of responding at a particular time within an interval was shown to depend at least in part on the local rate of reinforcement at that time, derived from a measure of the probability of reinforcement at that time and the proximity of potential reinforcements at other times. The functional relationship between rate of responding and rate of reinforcement at different times within the intervals of a single schedule was similar to that obtained across different schedules in Exp. 1. Experiments 4, 5, and 6 examined fixed‐interval and two‐valued (mixed fixed‐interval fixed‐interval) schedules, and demonstrated that reinforcement at one time in an interval had substantial effects on responding maintained at other times. It was concluded that the rate of responding maintained by a given interval schedule depends not on the overall rate of reinforcement provided but rather on the summation of different local effects of reinforcement at different times within intervals.

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Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Tập 11 Số 3S2

327-383

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