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THE STRUCTURE OF RESPONSE RATE 1
Author(s) -
Williams David R.
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.1968.11-251
Subject(s) - reinforcement , statistics , probability distribution , interval (graph theory) , computer science , mathematics , psychology , combinatorics , social psychology
Interresponse time distributions of the terminal rate under fixed‐interval and fixed‐ratio schedules were examined, using data from three rats in each case. By means of a sequential analysis, the overall interresponse time distributions were separated into orderly components. Consideration of the component distributions suggested that multiple determinants of rate act in succession, not simultaneously, and that probability of reinforcement has an important effect on the probability of occurrence of interresponse times.