TEMPORAL CONTROL IN FIXED‐INTERVAL SCHEDULES
作者:
Michael D. Zeiler,
David G. Powell,
期刊:
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 61,
issue 1
页码: 1-9
ISSN:0022-5002
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1994.61-1
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: peak procedure;timing;fixed‐interval schedules;key peck;pigeons
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The peak procedure was used to study temporal control in pigeons exposed to seven fixed‐interval schedules ranging from 7.5 to 480 s. The focus was on behavior in individual intervals. Quantitative properties of temporal control depended on whether the aspect of behavior considered was initial pause duration, the point of maximum acceleration in responding, the point of maximum deceleration, the point at which responding stopped, or several different statistical derivations of a point of maximum responding. Each aspect produced different conclusions about the nature of temporal control, and none conformed to what was known previously about the way ongoing responding was controlled by time under conditions of differential reinforcement. Existing theory does not explain why Weber's law so rarely fit the results or why each type of behavior seemed unique. These data fit with others suggesting that principles of temporal control may depend on the role played by the particular aspect of behavior in particular situation
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