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PUNISHMENT OF S Δ RESPONDING OF HUMANS IN CONDITIONAL MATCHING TO SAMPLE BY TIME‐OUT 1
Author(s) -
Zimmerman J.,
Baydan Nuran T.
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.1963.6-589
Subject(s) - sample (material) , punishment (psychology) , matching (statistics) , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , statistics , social psychology , physics , mathematics , thermodynamics
Human subjects were intermittently reinforced with money for performing correctly on a conditional matching‐to‐sample task. The matching performance was examined as a function of a) the duration of Time‐Outs (TOs) which followed every incorrect response and b) the frequency (FR value) with which TOs followed incorrect responses. The matching accuracy increased with longer TOs and decreased with less frequent presentation of TOs.