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EFFECTS OF REQUIRED RATES OF RESPONDING UPON CHOICE 1
Author(s) -
Fantino Edmund
Publication year - 1968
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.1968.11-15
Subject(s) - reinforcement , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , audiology , differential reinforcement , statistics , neuroscience , social psychology , mathematics , cognitive psychology , medicine
Pigeons' responses in the presence of two concurrently available (initial‐link) stimuli produced one of two different (terminal‐link) stimuli according to identical but independent variable‐interval schedules. Responses in the presence of each terminal‐link stimulus produced equal frequencies of food reinforcement, but in the presence of one of the stimuli, food depended upon the emission of a response rate either higher or lower than a specified value (differential reinforcement of rates). The measure of preference, the dependent variable, was the distribution of responses in the presence of the concurrently available stimuli of the initial links. Each pigeon, the responding of which was appropriately controlled by the response‐rate requirements in the two terminal‐link stimuli, consistently preferred the stimulus not associated with a response‐rate requirement.