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EFFECTS OF DELAYED REINFORCEMENT IN A CONCURRENT SITUATION 1
Author(s) -
Chung ShinHo
Publication year - 1965
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.1965.8-439
Subject(s) - reinforcement , pecking order , aperiodic graph , peck (imperial) , interval (graph theory) , psychology , statistics , arithmetic , mathematics , social psychology , combinatorics , biology , ecology , geometry
Pigeons were trained to peck either of two response keys for food reinforcement on equated aperiodic schedules. Delays of reinforcement for pecks at one key reduced the relative frequency of pecking exponentially as a function of the delay interval. Similar functions were obtained when other dependent variables were plotted against the delay interval.