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A COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF SERIAL INTERACTIONS IN SPACED RESPONDING 1
Author(s) -
Weiss Bernard,
Laties Victor G.,
Siegel Louis,
Goldstein David
Publication year - 1966
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.1966.9-619
Subject(s) - reinforcement , autocorrelation , serial learning , schedule , computer science , operant conditioning , statistics , psychology , mathematics , cognitive psychology , social psychology , operating system , recall
Serial dependencies in inter response times were studied by means of a digital computer. In monkeys exposed to a DRL 20‐sec schedule of reinforcement, serial interactions appeared at all stages of training. Early in training the serial effects consisted of trains of relatively long interresponse times interspersed among trains of relatively short ones. Later on, the serial effects appeared to be characterized by a tendency to drift up and down in long wavelength periods around the minimum interval required for reinforcement. After training to a point at which most interresponse times produced reinforcement, serial effects of a still more subtle nature appeared. These effects were made apparent by autocorrelation and power spectrum methods and consisted of both long‐term and extremely short‐term fluctuations in interresponse times.