Premium
THE BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF SOME TEMPORALLY DEFINED SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
Author(s) -
HEARST ELIOT
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1958.1-45
Subject(s) - reinforcement , citation , library science , computer science , psychology , information retrieval , social psychology
The differences in behavioral effects between interval and ratio reinforcement have been pointed out by several investigators (1, 6, 9, 15), and reveal themselves most clearly in comparisons of over-all response rates, temporal patterns of cumulative-response curves, and subsequent extinction responding. In view of the different procedures followed by the experimenter and these contrasting behavioral effects, most researchers have regarded the two categories as basically distinct.