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VARIABILITY OF RESPONSE LOCATION FOR PIGEONS RESPONDING UNDER CONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT, INTERMITTENT REINFORCEMENT, AND EXTINCTION 1
Author(s) -
Eckerman David A.,
Lanson Robert N.
Publication year - 1969
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.1969.12-73
Subject(s) - reinforcement , peck (imperial) , extinction (optical mineralogy) , food delivery , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , physics , optics , geometry , marketing , business
The effect of several reinforcement schedules on the variability in topography of a pigeon's key‐peck response was determined. The measure of topography was the location of a key peck within a 10‐in. wide by 0.75‐in. high response key. Food reinforcement was presented from a magazine located below the center of the response key. Variability in response locus decreased to a low value during training in which each response produced reinforcement. Variability increased when fixed intervals, variable intervals, random intervals, or extinction were scheduled.