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A BRIEF COMPUTER‐BASED ASSESSMENT OF REINFORCER DIMENSIONS AFFECTING CHOICE
Author(s) -
Neef Nancy A.,
Lutz Megan Noone
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.2001.34-57
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , applied psychology , social psychology
In an extension of Neef, Shade, and Miller (1994), we used a brief computer‐based assessment of differential responsiveness to reinforcer rate, quality, delay, and response effort in affecting the choices of 11 participants. The assessment involved successive presentations of two concurrent sets of math problems, each set associated with competing reinforcer or response dimensions in a counterbalanced fashion. The results showed that the reinforcer and response dimensions differentially affected choice, with time‐allocation patterns varying across students.