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INTERRESPONSE TIME DURATION IN FIXED‐INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT: CONTROL BY ORDINAL POSITION AND TIME SINCE REINFORCEMENT 1
Author(s) -
Shull Richard L.,
Brownstein Aaron J.
Publication year - 1970
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.1970.14-49
Subject(s) - reinforcement , pecking order , duration (music) , statistics , interval (graph theory) , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , combinatorics , art , literature , evolutionary biology , biology
The times between each of the first thirteen responses after reinforcement (the first twelve interresponse times) were determined for two pigeons whose pecking was reinforced on fixed‐interval schedules of food reinforcement ranging from 0.5 min to 5 min. These interresponse times were classified with respect to their ordinal position in the sequence of responses and with respect to the time since the preceding reinforcement at which the initiating response occurred. The median interresponse time durations were essentially constant after the sixth response after reinforcement regardless of the time at which the interresponse time was initiated. The durations of the first few interresponse times after reinforcement decreased as the number of preceding responses increased and as the time since the preceding reinforcement increased.