Rapid shaping of fixed-interval verbal behavior
Tóm tắt
Five undergraduate psychology majors and one high school student were trained to vocalize for point reinforcement. Once they did this regularly, they were trained to verbalize freely for points on fixed-interval schedules. Each of the Ss spoke at high rates with rare pauses until an SD for reinforcement was delivered contingent on responses in the latter portion of each interval. This procedure shaped up regular postreinforcement pauses and bursts of responses at high rate prior to each reinforcement within few sessions.
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