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SIZE AND RELIABILITY OF FREQUENCY‐DIFFERENCE THRESHOLDS DETERMINED WITH OPERANT TRACKING PROCEDURE 1
Author(s) -
Frazier Larry F.,
Elliott Donald N.
Publication year - 1963
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.1963.6-189
Subject(s) - operant conditioning , reinforcement , tracking (education) , cats , reliability (semiconductor) , audiology , animal behavior , conditioning , limit (mathematics) , statistics , psychology , computer science , mathematics , physics , social psychology , biology , medicine , power (physics) , zoology , quantum mechanics , embedded system , pedagogy , mathematical analysis
Auditory frequency discrimination thresholds have been determined by a “tracking procedure” at five frequencies and two intensity levels for a group of four cats. Intra‐animal thresholds were found to be quite stable, and there was good inter‐animal agreement among three of the four cats. Although quite stable, the tracking thresholds were larger than those which had been obtained using an avoidance procedure. However, because of the several differences between the tracking procedure and avoidance conditioning procedure, no conclusions can be drawn concerning the efficacy of the different types of reinforcement in determining the ultimate limit of the animals' discrimination ability.