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STIMULUS CONTROL IN THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COOPERATION 1
Author(s) -
Schmitt David R.,
Marwell Gerald
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.1968.11-571
Subject(s) - stimulus control , stimulus (psychology) , neuroscience , computer science , psychology , speech recognition , cognitive psychology , nicotine
The cooperative responses of pairs of human subjects were reinforced under several stimulus conditions in two settings designed to require a “social” response, i.e ., where at least one of the two persons is responding to the behavior of the other. The first task, designed by Lindsley and Cohen, required individual responses within 0.5 sec of one another for reinforcement. The second (modified) task required a delay of 3 sec between individual responses. To determine dependence of cooperation on social stimuli, rates of cooperative behavior on these tasks were compared in the presence and absence of a stimulus indicating to each subject the other's response and a stimulus which indicated the duration of the timeout after reinforcement. The results indicated that only in the modified task was a high rate of cooperation always contingent upon the presence of the social stimuli.