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FIXED‐RATIO PUNISHMENT BY TIMEOUT OF CONCURRENT VARIABLE‐INTERVAL BEHAVIOR 1
Author(s) -
Thomas John 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.1968.11-609
Subject(s) - timeout , reinforcement , schedule , punishment (psychology) , psychology , interval (graph theory) , variable (mathematics) , statistics , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , operating system
Pigeons' responding was maintained by two concurrently available variable‐interval reinforcement schedules. A fixed‐ratio punishment schedule of timeout periods from the concurrent reinforcement schedules was arranged for responding during one of the variable‐interval schedules. The greater the probability of a timeout after a response on the punished variable‐interval schedule (the smaller the fixed ratio that produced timeout), the greater the decline in the relative punished response rates. Relative reinforcement rates remained invariant when relative response rates declined. Both behavioral contrast and induction effects were observed on the unpunished variable‐interval schedule as a function of timeout punishment of the other schedule.