Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
SCIE-ISI SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1958-2023)
0022-5002
1938-3711
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Cơ quản chủ quản: WILEY , Wiley-Blackwell
Lĩnh vực:
Behavioral NeuroscienceExperimental and Cognitive Psychology
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AUTO‐SHAPING OF THE PIGEON'S KEY‐PECK1Reliable acquistion of the pigeon's key‐peck response resulted from repeated unconditional (response‐independent) presentations of food after the response key was illuminated momentarily. Comparison groups showed that acquisition was dependent upon light—food pairings, in that order.
Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 1-8 - 1968
AREA UNDER THE CURVE AS A MEASURE OF DISCOUNTINGWe describe a novel approach to the measurement of discounting based on calculating the area under the empirical discounting function. This approach avoids some of the problems associated with measures based on estimates of the parameters of theoretical discounting functions. The area measure may be easily calculated for both individual and group data collected using any of a variety of cu... ...
Tập 76 Số 2 - Trang 235-243 - 2001
SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITY AND DELAYHuman subjects indicated their preference between a hypothetical $1,000 reward available with various probabilities or delays and a certain reward of variable amount available immediately. The function relating the amount of the certain‐immediate reward subjectively equivalent to the delayed $1,000 reward had the same general shape (hyperbolic) as the function found by Mazur (1987) to desc... ...
Tập 55 Số 2 - Trang 233-244 - 1991
DELAY OR PROBABILITY DISCOUNTING IN A MODEL OF IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR: EFFECT OF ALCOHOLLittle is known about the acute effects of drugs of abuse on impulsivity and self‐control. In this study, impulsivity was assessed in humans using a computer task that measured delay and probability discounting. Discounting describes how much the value of a reward (or punisher) is decreased when its occurrence is either delayed or uncertain. Twenty‐four healthy adult volunteers ingested a ... ...
Tập 71 Số 2 - Trang 121-143 - 1999
WITHIN‐SUBJECT COMPARISON OF REAL AND HYPOTHETICAL MONEY REWARDS IN DELAY DISCOUNTINGA within‐subject design, using human participants, compared delay discounting functions for real and hypothetical money rewards. Both real and hypothetical rewards were studied across a range that included $10 to $250. For 5 of the 6 participants, no systematic difference in discount rate was observed in response to real and hypothetical choices, suggesting that hypothetical rewards may of... ...
Tập 77 Số 2 - Trang 129-146 - 2002
A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RESPONDING MAINTAINED BY INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT1Interval 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 ari... ...
Tập 11 Số 3S2 - Trang 327-383 - 1968
TIME AND MEMORY: TOWARDS A PACEMAKER‐FREE THEORY OF INTERVAL TIMINGA popular view of interval timing in animals is that it is driven by a discrete pacemaker‐accumulator mechanism that yields a linear scale for encoded time. But these mechanisms are fundamentally at odds with the Weber law property of interval timing, and experiments that support linear encoded time can be interpreted in other ways. We argue that the dominant pacemaker‐accumulator theory, ... ...
Tập 71 Số 2 - Trang 215-251 - 1999
COMPLEX LEARNING AND INFORMATION PROCESSING BY PIGEONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSISThree models of conditional discrimination learning by pigeons are described: stimulus configuration learning, the multiple‐rule model, and concept learning. A review of the literature reveals that true concept learning is not characteristic of the behavior of pigeons in matching‐to‐sample, oddity‐from‐sample, or symbolic matching studies. Instead, pigeons learn a set of sample‐specific S<... ...
Tập 29 Số 3 - Trang 565-601 - 1978
NOTES ON DISCOUNTINGIn general, if a variable can be expressed as a function of its own maximum value, that function may be called a discount function. Delay discounting and probability discounting are commonly studied in psychology, but memory, matching, and economic utility also may be viewed as discounting processes. When they are so viewed, the discount function obtained is hyperbolic in form. In some cas... ...
Tập 85 Số 3 - Trang 425-435 - 2006