AN EQUATION FOR BEHAVIORAL CONTRAST
作者:
Ben A. Williams,
John T. Wixted,
期刊:
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 1
页码: 47-62
ISSN:0022-5002
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1986.45-47
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: multiple schedules;quantitative analysis;behavioral contrast;inhibition of reinforcement;matching;pigeons
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Pigeons were trained on a three‐component multiple schedule in which the rates of reinforcement in the various components were systematically varied. Response rates were described by an equation that posits that the response‐strengthening effects of reinforcement are inversely related to the context of reinforcement in which it occurs, and that the context is calculated as the weighted average of the various sources of reinforcement in the situation. The quality of fits was comparable to that found with previous quantitative analyses of concurrent schedules, especially for relative response rates, with over 90% of the variance accounted for in every case. As with previous research, reinforcements in the component that was to follow received greater weights in determining the context than did reinforcements in the preceding compon
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