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ANALYSIS OF THE CONTROL EXERTED BY A COMPLEX COOPERATION PROCEDURE 1
Author(s) -
Hake D. F.,
Vukelich Ron
Publication year - 1973
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.1973.19-3
Subject(s) - stimulus control , sample (material) , psychology , matching (statistics) , stimulus (psychology) , panel data , social psychology , control sample , panel analysis , control (management) , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , chemistry , food science , chromatography , neuroscience , nicotine
The study examined the effects of the availability of a non‐cooperative response on cooperative responding when cooperation did not have to result in an equal distribution of work or reinforcers. Also, an attempt was made to determine if the cooperative responding was under the control of the cooperation procedure. Pairs of institutionalized retardates were tested in full view of each other. For each subject, reinforcers (money) were contingent upon responses on each of two panels: (1) a matching panel for working matching‐to‐sample problems, and (2) a sample panel for producing the sample stimulus. The matching panels of the two subjects were 6 m apart, but a subject's sample panel could be placed at different distances from his matching panel. For each subject, either his own or his partner's sample panel could be nearest his matching panel such that less walking was required to reach one sample panel than the other. Subjects could work either individually, by producing their own sample stimulus, or cooperatively, by producing the sample stimulus for their partner. Subjects selected whichever solution involved the least amount of walking. The importance of testing for control by the cooperation procedure was indicated by the findings that cooperative‐like responses were not always under the control of the cooperation procedure.