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CHOICE BEHAVIOR AND THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE REINFORCER 1
Author(s) -
Fantino Edmund,
Squires Nancy,
Delbrück Nicola,
Peterson Christa
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.1972.18-35
Subject(s) - changeover , reinforcement , matching law , duration (music) , interval (graph theory) , matching (statistics) , variable (mathematics) , statistics , mathematics , computer science , psychology , social psychology , physics , combinatorics , telecommunications , mathematical analysis , transmission (telecommunications) , acoustics
In Experiment 1, matching of relative response rates to relative rates of reinforcement was obtained in concurrent variable‐interval schedules when the absolute values of the two concurrent variable‐interval schedules varied from 6 sec and 12 sec to 600 sec and 1200 sec. Increases in the duration of the changeover delay, however, produced decreases in the relative response rates and, consequently, some deviation from matching. In Experiment 2, matching of relative response rates to the relative duration of the reinforcer failed to occur when the equal variable‐interval schedules arranging access to the two different reinforcer durations (1.5 and 6 sec) were varied in size from concurrent variable‐interval 10‐sec schedules to concurrent variable‐interval 600‐sec schedules.