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SUSTAINED BEHAVIORAL CONTRAST IN CHILDREN 1
Author(s) -
Waite Wenden W.,
Osborne J. Grayson
Publication year - 1972
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.1972.18-113
Subject(s) - contrast (vision) , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence
Children were exposed to a multiple schedule involving equal variable‐interval schedules in each of two components and a multiple schedule involving a variable‐interval schedule in one component and an extinction schedule in the other. Response rates were equal in both components when each involved a variable‐interval schedule. Response rates differed in the two components of the multiple variable‐interval extinction schedule. Response rates were higher in the variable‐interval schedule when the accompanying schedule was extinction than when it was variable interval. The increase in response rate in the variable‐interval component, simultaneous with the decrease in response rate in the extinction component, illustrated sustained behavioral contrast, and was the first evidence of this phenomenon in children.